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Minor surgery
570
American Journal of Surgery
Book
BOOK REVIEWS ITS PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS. By AstIey Paston Cooper Ashhurst, A.B., M.D., F.A.c.s.; Professor of CIinicaI Surgery, Univ. of PennsyIvania; Surgeon, EpiscopaI and PhiIadelphia Orthopedic Hosps. and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases; CoIoneI, MedicaI Reserve Corps, U. S. Army. Ed. 3. 8 vo. Cloth. Pp. I 179, 15 coIored pIates and 1046 iIIus. PhiIa., Lea & Febiger, 1927.
MAY, 1928
Reviews dispensary, nor does hernia except, perhaps,
operation for in infancy.
inguina1
SURGERY.
Ashhurst has improved his work with each edition and this one may be sincereIy recommended for study as a textbook of genera1 Many sections have been entireIy surgery. rewritten or introduced as new matter, and the book shows wide reading and generous reference to the work of others. As in the earIier editions, bibIiographic references are omitted, but the names of surgeons cited are foIIowed by the year of the pubIication cited, which makes Iibrary work easier. There is, too, an index of authors in addition to the subject index. The more important operations and surgicaI manipuIations are described in detai1. In this edition the iIIustrations, many of them new, are nearIy a11 0riginaI. Here and there Ashhurst’s methods are boIdIy at variance with those more generaIIy accepted and, we think, more modern. Some years ago he wrote a prize essay on fractures of the eIbow, and the section of his book devoted to that subject we commend for carefu1 reading. But concerning the treatment of fractures of the upper end and the shaft of the humerus, the student wouId do we11 to read other works. * * * MINOR SURGERY. By Arthur E. HertzIer, M.D., F.A.c.s.; Chief Surgeon, HaIstead Hosp., and Victor E. Chesky, A.B., M.D., F.A.c.s.; Chief Resident Surgeon, HaIstead Hosp. 8 vo. CIoth. Pp. 568, 438 iIIus. St. Louis, C. V. Mosby Co., 1927. This attractive and profuseIy iIIustrated book is intended as a heIp to the worker in out-patient surgica1 departments, and the novitiate in that fieId wiI1 certainIy find much instruction here. The book by no means covers, however, the whoIe fieId of minor surgery, and yet in some pIaces it goes we11 outside of it. We do not think, for example, that the technique of operations for umbiIica1 and femora1 hernia beIongs to minor surgery or to the
* * * Rose and CarIess’ MANUAL OF SURGERY. For students and Practitioners. By AIbert CarIess, c.B.E.,M.B., M.S. (Lond.), F.R.c.s., F.A.C.S. (Hon.); Emeritus Professor of Surgery, King’s CoIIege, London; ConsuIting Surgeon, King’s CoIIege Hosp., and CeciI P. G. WakeIey, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.S. (Edin.); Erasmus WiIson Lecturer, Royal CoIIege of Surgeons of EngIand; Assistant Surgeon, King’s CoIIege Hosp. ; Lecturer in King’s CoIIege Hosp. MedicaI Surgery, SchooI; Assistant Surgeon, BeIgrave Hosp. for ChiIdren, and West End Hosp. for Nervous Diseases. Ed. 12. 8 vo. CIoth. Pp. 1544; 639 iIIus. N. Y., WiIIiam Wood & Co., 1927. “Rose and CarIess,” now thirty years oId, is the cIassic of modern British textbooks of genera1 surgery with which, among American singIe-voIume works, we wouId compare onIy the extensive treatise of DaCosta. With this and with other textbooks of genera1 surgery in this country, “Rose and Carless” shares popuIarity with American students. It is but three years since the preceding British and American editions appeared, but there has been no inconsiderabIe revision and severa new iIIustrations added. In this work Prof. CarIess has had Mr. CeciI P. G. Wakeley as an associate, and others have heIped in revising specia1 sections, as in pathoIogy and anesthesia. * * * EMERGENCIES OF A GENERAL PRACTICE. By the Iate Nathan CIark Morse, A.B., M.D., F.A.C.S. Ed. 2, revised and rewritten by Amos Watson CoIcord, M.D.; Surgeon, Carnegie SteeI Co.; Surgeon, PennsyIvania 8 vo. Cloth. Pp. 541; RaiIroad System. 31 r illus. St. Louis., C. V. Mosby Co., 1927. CoIcord’s experience in industria1 surgery fits him we11 for the revision of this interesting work. It is replete with practica1 instruction in the management of the accidents and emergencies of surgical, obstetrica and medica practice, and we commend it not only to the practitioner in smaher communities but to practitioners generaIIy. We wouId criticize onIy the description of the CriIe method of bIood transfusion by arterio-
American Journal of Surgery
Book
BOOK REVIEWS ITS PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS. By AstIey Paston Cooper Ashhurst, A.B., M.D., F.A.c.s.; Professor of CIinicaI Surgery, Univ. of PennsyIvania; Surgeon, EpiscopaI and PhiIadelphia Orthopedic Hosps. and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases; CoIoneI, MedicaI Reserve Corps, U. S. Army. Ed. 3. 8 vo. Cloth. Pp. I 179, 15 coIored pIates and 1046 iIIus. PhiIa., Lea & Febiger, 1927.
MAY, 1928
Reviews dispensary, nor does hernia except, perhaps,
operation for in infancy.
inguina1
SURGERY.
Ashhurst has improved his work with each edition and this one may be sincereIy recommended for study as a textbook of genera1 Many sections have been entireIy surgery. rewritten or introduced as new matter, and the book shows wide reading and generous reference to the work of others. As in the earIier editions, bibIiographic references are omitted, but the names of surgeons cited are foIIowed by the year of the pubIication cited, which makes Iibrary work easier. There is, too, an index of authors in addition to the subject index. The more important operations and surgicaI manipuIations are described in detai1. In this edition the iIIustrations, many of them new, are nearIy a11 0riginaI. Here and there Ashhurst’s methods are boIdIy at variance with those more generaIIy accepted and, we think, more modern. Some years ago he wrote a prize essay on fractures of the eIbow, and the section of his book devoted to that subject we commend for carefu1 reading. But concerning the treatment of fractures of the upper end and the shaft of the humerus, the student wouId do we11 to read other works. * * * MINOR SURGERY. By Arthur E. HertzIer, M.D., F.A.c.s.; Chief Surgeon, HaIstead Hosp., and Victor E. Chesky, A.B., M.D., F.A.c.s.; Chief Resident Surgeon, HaIstead Hosp. 8 vo. CIoth. Pp. 568, 438 iIIus. St. Louis, C. V. Mosby Co., 1927. This attractive and profuseIy iIIustrated book is intended as a heIp to the worker in out-patient surgica1 departments, and the novitiate in that fieId wiI1 certainIy find much instruction here. The book by no means covers, however, the whoIe fieId of minor surgery, and yet in some pIaces it goes we11 outside of it. We do not think, for example, that the technique of operations for umbiIica1 and femora1 hernia beIongs to minor surgery or to the
* * * Rose and CarIess’ MANUAL OF SURGERY. For students and Practitioners. By AIbert CarIess, c.B.E.,M.B., M.S. (Lond.), F.R.c.s., F.A.C.S. (Hon.); Emeritus Professor of Surgery, King’s CoIIege, London; ConsuIting Surgeon, King’s CoIIege Hosp., and CeciI P. G. WakeIey, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.S. (Edin.); Erasmus WiIson Lecturer, Royal CoIIege of Surgeons of EngIand; Assistant Surgeon, King’s CoIIege Hosp. ; Lecturer in King’s CoIIege Hosp. MedicaI Surgery, SchooI; Assistant Surgeon, BeIgrave Hosp. for ChiIdren, and West End Hosp. for Nervous Diseases. Ed. 12. 8 vo. CIoth. Pp. 1544; 639 iIIus. N. Y., WiIIiam Wood & Co., 1927. “Rose and CarIess,” now thirty years oId, is the cIassic of modern British textbooks of genera1 surgery with which, among American singIe-voIume works, we wouId compare onIy the extensive treatise of DaCosta. With this and with other textbooks of genera1 surgery in this country, “Rose and Carless” shares popuIarity with American students. It is but three years since the preceding British and American editions appeared, but there has been no inconsiderabIe revision and severa new iIIustrations added. In this work Prof. CarIess has had Mr. CeciI P. G. Wakeley as an associate, and others have heIped in revising specia1 sections, as in pathoIogy and anesthesia. * * * EMERGENCIES OF A GENERAL PRACTICE. By the Iate Nathan CIark Morse, A.B., M.D., F.A.C.S. Ed. 2, revised and rewritten by Amos Watson CoIcord, M.D.; Surgeon, Carnegie SteeI Co.; Surgeon, PennsyIvania 8 vo. Cloth. Pp. 541; RaiIroad System. 31 r illus. St. Louis., C. V. Mosby Co., 1927. CoIcord’s experience in industria1 surgery fits him we11 for the revision of this interesting work. It is replete with practica1 instruction in the management of the accidents and emergencies of surgical, obstetrica and medica practice, and we commend it not only to the practitioner in smaher communities but to practitioners generaIIy. We wouId criticize onIy the description of the CriIe method of bIood transfusion by arterio-