LITERATURE OF MEDICINE
Reviews and Notes: Workshops in Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders
1 December 1994 | Volume 121 Issue 11 | Pages 902-903
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Workshops in Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders
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Harold M. Szerlip and Stanley Goldfarb; eds. 199 pages. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1994. $34.95.
Read a chapter and analyze several relevant cases at its end. The eight chapters include such topics as volume homeostasis, hypo- and hypernatremia, metabolic acidosis and acidosis, and calcium metabolism. Suggestions for further reading are given. The preface includes a quotation from Homer Smith from more than 30 years ago: "Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself"
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