Article: THE WISDOM OF THE BODY, by Sherwin B. Nuland; Alfred A. Knopf (395 pages, $26.95).(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Isaac Asimov reduced physics to a readable language and introduced excitement into a dull subject. Carl Sagan did so with astrophysics, and Oliver Sacks with neurology. Now, the award-winning author Sherwin B. Nuland, a clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, does this for our understanding of ``The Wisdom of the Human Body.''

Nuland draws his inspiration from William Harvey, a 17th-century doctor who discovered the circulation of blood. Describing Harvey, Nuland says: ``He writes in the grand tradition of those enthralled by the omnipotence and the enigma alike of nature _ which creates an edifice of flesh and sets it free, to be governed by ...

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