Fractures and Joint Injuries

Jones, B.Sc., iM.Ch. Orth., F.R.C.S. (L'pool). Volumes I and II. Third Edition. 1944. E. and S. Livingstone, Edinburgh. Pp. xi plus 407 In volume I and pp. vii plus from 408 to 9G0 in volume II. Illustrated. Price 75s. Postage 1s. those who have read the first edition of Mr. Watson-Jones' 'Fractures and Joint Injuries', it will not come as a surprise to learn that a third edition is now on the market within three years. This new edition in two volumes contains much new material and many fresh illustrations, both photographic and coloured. Two hundred pages of new material have been added and the new edition contains one of the most perfect collections of illustrations in anv medical or surgical textbook. Every phase of repair, every complication and every method of treatment is so well illustrated that the reader in a hurry can gain a very fair idea of the subject from a study of the illustrations and legends alone. Mr. Watson-Jones has been at great pains to make the pictures teach, and several devices have been incorporated to drive home his points. Many of the illustrations are set beside a twin picture covered by a flap. The reader is. asked to draw his conclusions from the photograph on view and then compare it with that covered by the flap which illustrates the same fracture viewed from a different angle, taken with the joint in a different position or taken a few weeks after the first. The lessons are frequently striking and impressive. Jn one section he goes the length of a cut-out model which can be fitted to the picture in the text to illustrate the degree of plantar flexion necessary to reduce a fractured neck of the talus. The text also is easy to read and occasionally streaked with sly humour and, what is particularly refreshing, frequent references to the careers and contributions of the great men of the ? ^verP?0' School^ and particularly to many of