Lionel H. Opie

Evolution of science, like biological evolution, develops by a zigzag course of trial and error; the errors are soon forgottén though they serve as stepping-stones to new progress. The factors which determine both scientific progress and scientific error are dependent on the ability of the brain...

FOREWORD Medicine, like art, relies on images. Most physicians begin their formal medical training with courses In Anatomy and Histology, which help to develop the visual skills needed to appreciate tre structural foundations of bodily function. As the curriculum moves to the more conceptual...

AUTHOR'S PREFACE Calcium antagonists are now regarded as the most important advance in cardiac drug therapy since the advent of beta-adrenergic blocking agents. Acting basically as vasodilators—though with many other complex mechanisms especially in the case of the antiarrhythmic calcium...