A thoroughly revised edition of a highly popularized tropically oriented clinical medical textbook, edited by well experienced teachers and examiners at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Emphasis on step by step way of examining a patient on the bedside a necessary skill to arriving at a diagnosis
A basic tool in the hands of medical students (undergraduate and postgraduate)
A basic tool in the hands of practicing specialist and general practitioners
Covers all day to day steps to examining a patient to arrive at diagnosis of problems especially faced in the tropics.

Revised and expanded, this companion to tropical diagnosis retains its original purpose: a full description of approaches, techniques of examination, and diagnostic steps. The author is Professor of Medicine at the University of Ibadan. Practical hints are given for both the experienced and not so experienced. There are also sections on the psychiatric patient, sick children (including nutritional assessment) and basic laboratory techniques of the clinician.