In this edition, every endeavour has been made to include all details to undergraduate medical students and, also, to supply update information that can satisfactorily serve the requisites of postgraduates in medicine. The principal objective has been to supply easily comprehensible basis for the practice of medicine. With an appreciation that this volume must be, at least, equally comparable with other available textbooks.This volume will prove its worth and be reckoned as a most helpful and indeed, essential to all undergraduates and postgraduates in medicine, including the General Practitioners. It deals with diseases and their time of treatment with desired details and clarity. It is written by highly qualified well known medical authors of this continent