Little importance has been laid on the study of Medical Mycology in the undergraduate course of the Indian universities. The subject has, however, been recently included as a part of the postgraduate curricula of Dermatology and Tropical Medicine of the Calcutta University. This has been judiciously done, as diseases caused by fungi are not uncommon in India, a tropical country. The most remarkable feature of the book is that as regards to antifungal therapy, the late 1990s are a few remarkable years when antifungal chemotherapeutics have been thoroughly revolutionised with the further advancement in the field of Azole compounds. There have been a lot of therapeutic improvements to cure most of fungal diseases. The book is complete and worth making collection with numerous illustrated plates, text figures, coloured plates and diagrams, collected and prepared during long periods of work. Common laboratory methods have been included in the appendix including certain recipes which might be of help to the medical practitioners.