The compleat thoracic surgeon

Education of the thoracic surgeon.

Ferdinand Sauerbruch: Pioneer Thoracic Surgeon.

Cystic fibrosis and the thoracic surgeon.

Indications for thoracic surgery in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are principally represented by pleural diseases including pneumothorax, pleural effusion, and empyema and by parenchymal lung diseases including bronchiectasis, hemoptysis, and pulmonary abscess. Moreover, lung transplantation has proved a viable therapeutic option for progressive respiratory failure due to end-stage CF. Mai...

The Compleat Pediatrician

As a critical review it is somewhat less satisfactory, for many topics are mentioned but casually or receive but scant attention, a defect clearly unavoidable in the preparation of a text meant primarily to be practical. Nevertheless, it represents a treatment of the subject that will prove most useful. Much could be done to make the index more helpful, and the lack of an index of the many auth...

The Compleat Edition

The nature of a scholarly edition, as of any bibliographical tool, is determined by the historical, technical, social and rhetorical dimensions of the genre. This situatedness puts constrains of the force of scholarly editions: what they can and what they can not do. Claims have been made for the potent reproductive force of scholarly editions, as well as for the making of massive digital facsi...