This book deals with medical emergencies. The author, obviously a master of descriptive art as well as a physician of wide clinical experience, has succeeded in producing a medical classic. Urgent medical problems are portrayed vividly, enabling the reader to visualize a patient in the actual grip of the emergency under discussion. A more concise description of relatively minor manifestations, the mechanisms underlying these features and possible variations then follows. Differential diagnosis is discussed from the point of view of the physician confronted by the emergency, thus furthering the decidedly clinical implication of the book. The subject matter begins with emergencies of the respiratory tract and includes croup, asthma, pulmonary embolus or hemorrhage, hemoptysis, acute pulmonary edema, pneumothorax, copious expectoration from rupture of a suppurating area into a bronchus, and thoracic pain. The vivid clinical description of condition each is followed by a detailed discussion of the immediate treatment, but