Home health

Massive, impressively complete and it’s jargon free! You can look up such things as Delhi belly, faith healing and funny bone in the new updated British Medical Association Complete Family Health Encyclopedia edited by Tony Smith (Dorling Kindersley, £29.95, ISBN 0 7513 0161 2). With this exemplar of a book, superbly illustrated, you need never be at a loss for information on your own healthy state, or symptoms of possible trouble and medical treatment Consult it sparingly – it’s addictive.