Textbook evolution

A Textbook of Gynæcology

Previous editions of this book were well received by both the students and gynsecologists for whom they were meant. The present edition shows a vast improvement in the details of the matters dealt with previously as well as in the inclusion of the recent developments of the subject. Few textbooks contain a better or more exact description of the anatomy of the female genitalia than what is give...

Textbook of Ophthalmology

Textbook of Midwifery

professor working in an institution hoary with the best traditions of scientific medicine. Recent works on such important subjects like ' Erythroblastosis Fcetalis'?Penicillin Therapy, etc., have been incorporated for the benefit of students going up for examinations. At the same time the usual paraphernalia of a textbook of obstetrics, viz, the description of the mechanism of labeur, discussio...

A Textbook of Bacteriology

on the modern system, the old nomenclature is also given. The chapters on filtrable viruses, immunity, bacterial virulence, toxin, antitoxins and agglutinins are particularly good for the concise and comprehensive way in which these subjects have been dealt with. The inclusion of the more important pathogenic protozoa in a small chapter will be appreciated by the busy practitioner though it is ...

A Textbook of Surgery

This interesting book, though arranged in the form of a textbook, really consists of a collection of papers by American surgeons, purporting to cover the whole field of general surgery. The 1695 pages of text are shared by no less than 188 writers, of whom a few have contributed less than two thousand words each. No doubt this is what makes the book so attractive; every section has an air of fr...