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Previous Volume 336:666-667 February 27, 1997 Number 9 Next

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Edited by Guido Majno and Isabelle Joris. 974 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Science, 1996. $75. ISBN 0-86542-372-5.

At a time when our knowledge of genotypes is rapidly expanding, the publication of this book describing the rich and complex variation in phenotypes is refreshing. Written by a husband and wife, the book is seamless, flowing, and full of wonderful imagery.

Nobody would doubt that inflammatory exudation is a marvellous and life-saving phenomenon. But then, we should not forget that parenchymal cells — in the tissues when inflammation rages — must take a dim view of the exudate. To them it must be an acid, corrosive, hypertonic, asphyxiating medium, thick with proteolytic enzymes only partially controlled by plasma antiproteases. . . . [Full Text of this Article]