Drei Jahre Gallenstein Chirurgie

This book is divided into a first part of 492 pages, giving the clinical histories of 300 patients submitted to laparotomy for affections of the biliary system, mostly cases of gall-stone, and a second part of 200 pages, in which the preceding cases are analysed and classified, and the whole subject of gall-stone surgery is thoroughly and scientifically considered. The case-records are exceedingly well indexed, so that the reader can rapidly refer to those which illustrate any variety of operative procedure he particularly wishes to investigate, and nearly all types of operative procedure are exemplified. The case-records are not mere abstracts, but give in full all important details, with the exception of the permanent afterresults. The latter cannot be given, for all the operations were performed in the three years 1904 to 1906, and too little time has