"Medical students prefer Guyton's textbook to others...it has the consistent style of a traditional...textbook that maintains students' interest through clinical relevance...Excellent." (The New England Journal of Medicine, review of previous edition) Dr. John Hall has joined Dr. Arthur Guyton to revise and update the field's standard medical physiology textbook. This classic integrates new, important material on molecular and cellular physiology throughout, while continuing its comprehensive coverage of basic physiology and its relation to clinical medicine.