Аннотация:The human hand is a fascinating subject, an actor of many roles and disguises: the man in miniature, revealing its owner's story.Here is a book which sets out to teach us how best to examine it.This book has had an immediate appeal to everyone who has seen it.All doctors are, from time to time, called upon to see patients quickly, when facilities and time for a full general examination are missing.A guide to what could be regarded as "how-not-to-miss-systemic-diseasewithout-undressing-the-patient" will obviously have a wide market.The book is excellently printed, beauti- ully bound, and most of the pictures are clear and com-