It is a simplified, brief description of common dermatoses, peppered with numerous clinical and histopathology images (about 750), body and line diagrams (about 100) and tables (about 100). The  basic aim of the book is to familiarize medical students (and general practitioners) with manifestations of the common skin conditions they are likely to encounter in their day-to-day practice and to help them to manage  these  appropriately, without succumbing  to the morbid temptation of prescribing steroids,  which are often thought to be 'panacea of all skin ills'.