THE TWO-STAGE PRINCIPLE IN OPERATIVE SURGERY

Operative Surgery

Operative Surgery

In the great majority of books on operative surgery all the known methods are described and but little attempt is made clearly to indicate the best method according to the experience of the author. In this book which covers the whole range of operative surgery, exclusive of gynaecology, Dr. Horsley only describes in detail the techniques, which in view of his experience he deems best, thus cons...

Operative Surgery

In our notice of the first two volumes of this work we commented on its general plan and scope, which limits it entirely to a description of operative technique and disarms criticism of omissions by the statement that only the common operations are dealt with. In our opinion the author would have done better to have given us the benefit of his own personal experience, instead of compiling an en...

Operative Surgery

are performing operations on the cadaver." We are aware of the difficulties in carrying out this intention, but a perusal of the book leaves some dissatisfaction from both points of view. The illustrations number over 200, and are generally good and clear, but fig. 196 is anatomically incorrect in several particulars, and fig. 199 does not correspond with the description in the text. There are ...

Surgery in the aged: pre-operative and post-operative care.

Demographic Trends NEARLY half the patients admitted to general wards of hospitals today are over the age of 60 (Lancet, I963); the average age of patients admitted to Geriatric Units varies between 75 and 80, and in the Sunderland Geriatric Unit over onethird of all the admissions are over 80 years. The number of operations performed on patients of 60 and over (excluding orthopaedic and urolog...