The Medical Annual, 1945

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should be subjected to constant changes of nomenclature crops up at regular intervals. The only criticism is a personal one. The English throughout the book is of the Shakespearean type, at times so precise and at others so flowery as to be pedantic. For instance, page 114, describing one of the approaches to the popliteal fossa: "A plan intending to exploit the rear of any situation solely from the flank might seem a hopeless paradox. But in our surgical assault we hold this clear advantage over generals-the place can turn obligingly and let us in"; or again: "So veins, bedevil intervention and complicate our much too simple picture of a place where vessels fork and arch-in triplicate." Perhaps modern surgical textbooks hiave become too short and snappy, but the digest seems to be the order of the day. Livingstone have produced for thirty shillings a book which few busy practising surgeons can afford to be without. I. F.

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