Modern Medicine - Volume 6, Issue 3, March 1981

In this important article, Professor Seedat highlights the ever-increasing clinical significance of hypertension and its complications in the urban black South African population, and also the changing pattern of prevalence with the urbanisation and acculturation of the Blacks.

This paper by Prof Ellard, a psychiatrist at Northside Clinic, Sydney, was the introductory article in an excellent series ""Psychiatry for the non-psychiatrist"" in the Australian edition of Modern Medicine in 1975/76.

Accurate diagnosis of tinea pedis, or athlete's foot, is absolutely essential because antifungal treatment is useless or even harmful for other cutaneous diseases of the feet.

Early initiation of therapy, rather than directing resources toward complex circulatory support systems, is crucial in the prevention of this frequently fatal complication.

This clinical-radiological quiz is the thirteenth of Dr Myers' series.