George L. Fite

The Art of Learning Medicine

The artist wife of a practicing psychiatrist, May Lesser, armed herself with pen and pencil, brush and burin, and followed the medical school class of 1971 of the University of California in Los Angeles throughout its four years. Her experiences in every department of the medical learning process is shown brilliantly within this collection of more than 300 scenes from clinics, dissecting rooms, laboratories, and operating rooms. This remarkable record succeeds in capturing the heart of the educational process in almost effortless manner; the atmospheres, the intensities of the students, the inner earnestness inspire her drawings. Lesser becomes the soul of the student, always serious, always intense, and physicians who review these drawings, etchings, and paintings will recognize, sometimes painfully, the accuracy of her observations. Starting as an accomplished draftsman, mature from the beginning, her work, nevertheless, acquires depth and grasp as she progresses with the class. Late drawings have

Manson's Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates

Patrick Manson (1844-1922) began his study of tropical diseases 100 years ago, when he went to Formosa after finishing medicine at his native Aberdeen. He traveled all the tortuous paths of early malariology, made many contributions of his own, and a schistome is appropriately named for him. He was a mature 54 years of age when the first edition of his manual of tropical diseases appeared, and a year later played an important role in establishing the London School of Tropical Medicine. He was knighted not long after in recognition of his many achievements. The 16th edition of this book, for many years edited by his son-in-law, yields an astonishing accumulation of information which continues to find readers and followers, and to have withstood the raids on its markets by many other excellent texts. One of these, now fully adult in its 21 years of age, shows itself in a