The Medical Practitioner's handy consultant has perhaps emerged as the most popular possession in his/her hands., The concise and comprehensive text covering a wide variety of ailments including some medical emergencies, has received a wide acceptance, not only by the family physician or the general practitioner practicing allopathy, homeopathy and few other faculties, not forgetting the senior medical undergraduate. The entire text of the book is based on the important assumption that the diagnosis of the ailment has been established by clinical methods and when necessary, available investigative facilities before initiating therapy and management.