Imperative Surgery

This is not all blame, far from it, for Dr. Lilienthal's heavy handsome volume is welcome ii not necessary, and will I?e an addition to the surgeon's library. From the Preface we gather that the book has been written for the " practitioner of medicine who rarely takes up the scalpel, the specialist whose path seldom leads him to the operating room, and the recent graduate who, though versed in the lore of the books and lectures, has seen but little surgery at close range." It is suggested, if not distinctly admitted, that this book is to help a man in