Modern Trends in Cardiology

Dr. A. Morgan Jones has edited an excellent compendium on cardiology. He has invited contributions in the specific disciplines of cardiology from 19 different authorities. Each author has written from a personal point of view, with the result that many articles are pithy and easy to read. The emphasis has been more to supply perspective and depth in a subject than to give extensive bibliographic documentation. As a result, the textbook is extremely readable and covers a rather broad array of subjects. The chapters, a large amount of heretofore widely scattered material, are put together in sensible arrangement. The book might have benefitted from chapters on the myocardiopathies and perhaps on hypertension ( insofar as therapy has affected cardiac complications ). This book is highly recommended to anyone interested in cardiac disease, particularly if one is seeking more than the usual information found in a standard textbook. Although the book has an