A SHORT TEXTBOOK OF SURGERY (4th Edition)

IT is welcome to see a fourth edition of this useful textbook for students. The authors are to be congratulated on bringing out a further edition without notably increasing the length of this book, although their efforts to condense their material do lead to some difficulty. For example, on page 92, the 13 lines devoted to the natural history of breast cancer would almost certainly lead the student to wrong conclusions and to believe that there are two types of breast cancer: one which grows rapidly and spreads late, and another which develops secondary deposits in lymph models whilst the primary tumour remains occult.