Operative Surgery Manual

Manual of Operative Surgery

Pp. xxvi., 661. Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland. 1898. This is intended to serve as a complete handbook to students; but many subjects are dealt with, such as craniectomy, pylorectomy, draining the lateral ventricles and hepatectomy, which it is the lot of few to witness and still fewer to perform. The book is well illustrated by 400 illustrations; but fig. 98 on p. no does not correspond to the t...

A Manual of Operative Surgery

A Manual of Operative Surgery

Thirteen years have elapsed since the publication of the first edition of this work. During that period very great changes have been made in operative surgery, necessitating the entire revision of the second edition and the re-writing or remodelling of numerous sections. The most notable alterations occur in the second volume, dealing as it does with the abdomen, genito-urinary system, rectum a...

A Manual of Operative Dentistry

the older units that their seniors will not abandon. The book makes a constructive attempt to take the potential difficulty and confusion out of the unfortunate situation and is usually successful. However, some of the hints may depress the older reader. To convert the old millimetres of mercury into the new kilopascals, the reader is advised to multiply by 4 and divide by 30 or, alternatively,...

A Manual of Operative Dentistry

EPIDEMIOLOGY. Co-ordinating Editor, W. W. Holland. (Pp. viii+212; figs. 26. £3.25). London: Oxford University Press, 1970. THIS book deals, in 15 chapters by different authors, with seven topics: asking the question, study design, collection of data, record linkage, data processing, analysis, and implications. They discuss most aspects of epidemiological research, from formulating hypotheses to...