TY - JOUR T1 - Sea within: The story of our body fluid AU - Mason EE Y1 - 1961/11/01 N1 - 10.1001/archinte.1961.03620110146026 JO - Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 806 EP - 806 VL - 108 IS - 5 N2 - The school year ended, National Board Exams given, summer fellowship medical students started, the day's patients seen, papers to write and a blistering † letter from Editor Bean read asking why I have not turned in this book review, I once again note the beginning of the preface, "Blessed with a number of leisure hours seldom experienced in history, Americans are increasingly curious about the world in which we live." Of course, it is true, and for those lay adults and older children interested in The Story of Our Body Fluid, this is a good place to begin. This general approach reminds one of Homer W. Smith's From Fish to Philosopher: The Story of Our Internal Environment, which, in turn, reminds one of Claude Bernard's, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine. By reading these three books in that order I believe a young medical aspirant could gain a SN - 0003-9926 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1961.03620110146026 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1961.03620110146026 ER -