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By Louis Weinstein and John L. Brusch. 359 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. $75. ISBN 0-19-507395-9.

This book is a delectation to be savored by anyone with an interest in infectious disease, cardiology, or the history of medicine. With a half century of passionate involvement in the study and treatment of infective endocarditis, Louis Weinstein's remarkable career brackets the close of the pre-antibiotic era, the advent of modern antimicrobial therapy, and the emergence of antibiotic resistance and immunodeficiency. He and John L. Brusch illuminate the changing face of infective endocarditis from a vantage point shared by few others.

The fascinating first chapter of this book, "The Natural History of Infective Endocarditis Prior to the Availability of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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