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By Benedict F. Massell. 394 pp. Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., for the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, 1997. $24.95. ISBN 0-674-76877-9.

No one has had a longer or closer professional experience with rheumatic fever than Dr. Benedict F. Massell. His lifelong association with the disease began only shortly after the clinical picture of rheumatic fever had been described and approximately a decade and a half before Dr. T. Duckett Jones proposed his diagnostic criteria. He has closely observed or been part of essentially every noteworthy happening in the understanding and management of rheumatic fever since his graduation from medical school in 1931. It is both appropriate and right that Dr. Massell should cap his remarkable career by compiling a book that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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