THE PSYCHOANALYTIC REVOLUTION: Sigmund Freud's Life and Achievement

PROFESSOR WIDDESS in the small compass of 130 pages has covered the Surgery of Dublin and of Ireland in general, dealing particularly with that exciting period of the last 200 years. He deals with the schools of surgery of Dublin which, like their famous counterparts in London, The Hunterian and other schools, were the forenames of their more organised successor The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Dublin at that time was the second capital in the British Empire, and with its famous hospitals and more famous teachers, was the mecca for all enterprising doctors of that period. This book covers the details of these 200 years in a clear, readable and attractive style. It is a book which should be in every surgeon's hands and particularly with those who are interested in the history of progress of surgery during this time. Well printed, compact and well illustrated, the second edition of this book brings us right up to date with modern times. As Librarian of the Royal College of Surgeons Professor Widdess has had all the material available; his book seems to have covered every facet in the progress of that institution. I cannot recommend too highly this excellent book which seems in a small space to have covered what most authors would have put in to a volume three times that size. I.F.