On Gunshot Injuries to the Blood Vessels

The) experiences of the Great War have added vastly to our surgical knowledge and this applies especially to injuries of blood vessels. The author of " Gunshot Injuries to the Blood Vessels " makes no attempt to deal with the literature of the subject, but he gives us a firsthand account of the surgery of vascular injuries, on which he is an admitted authority. The subject is first dealt with generally and compared with the findings of other campaigns; anatomical considerations, symptoms and signs of the various types of injury and the problems of treatment are fully discussed. In the final chapters special points in connection with the individual vascular lesions are gone into. The book should be read by every surgeon, because it is important that all should realize that many of the statements laid down in prewar text books will now require wholesale revision. As an example of this, the teaching with regard to ligature of a main artery may be mentioned. Ample proof is brought forward that ligature of both artery and vein for the