Amoebic Liver Abscess by Dr. O.P. Kapoor

In 1972, while on an academic visit to India, a general physician and cardiologist invited me to look at some slides illustrating his studies on amoebic abscess. Frankly, at the time I was puzzled as to what I should learn from a cardiologist about this predominantly alimentary disease. I soon found out. Dr. O. P. Kapoor enthralled me with a dazzling display of slides demonstrating the manifest forms of amoebiasis of the liver, and with a commentary which made it clear to me that he had worked hard and long, and had given considerable thought in particular to the mechanisms of formation of amoebic liver abscess and its complications.
It is therefore with much pleasure that I introduce this book to the reader. It is a work of profound scholarship. Its coverage of the world literature on each aspect of the disease is exhaustive and up to date. His studies introduce new concepts and make clear the degree of vigilance and knowledge of the natural history and management which those working in the countries in which amoebiasis occurs must exercise. The detailed knowledge which this book presents and the extensive bibliography extending from the historical of Hippocrates to the present year is such that this work must become a source book and a model of its kind. It must be on the desk of all doctors, physicians and surgeons whose clinical role requires familiarity with amoebiasis. While it is eminently readable, it will undoubtedly become a reference classic.

W.SIRCUS, M.D., Ph.D., .F.R.C.P.
Physician in charge
The University of Edinburgh Gastro-intestinal Unit,
Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

12 July 1979