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Fifth edition. Edited by Barry M. Brenner. 2702 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1996. $325. ISBN 0-7216-5075-9.

Memories of my renal training returned as I read the fifth edition of Brenner & Rector's The Kidney. It was nearly a decade ago that I read the entire third edition of this book during the first year of my nephrology fellowship. Nightly, even when physically exhausted after being on call, I looked forward to settling down with coffee and digesting four or five pages of clinical nephrology or basic physiology. Much has changed in nephrology during the past decade — apparently nearly 1000 pages worth! However, the thoroughness and objectivity of previous editions persist and have even improved.

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