The ''Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics'' is a medical textbook first published in 1942 by Wayland MacFarlane, a

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and chief of the internal medicine ward. Described as the "bible of the medical ward" the Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics is now in its Thirty-Sixth Edition and currently it is now the best-selling medical textbook in the world, with more than 200,000 copies worldwide. It has been translated into numerous languages including

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. The book's current editors are Hilary E.L. Reno, Daniel H. Cooper, Andrew J. Krainik, and Sam J. Lubner.

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''Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics'' Source: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
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