Operative Surgery and Management

and more likely to fit your bookcase. Many of the chapters have been revised by their authors and provided with new illustrations. Basic considerations of anatomy and physiology, diagnostic procedures and indication5 for surgery are included as well as preparation f?r surgery and care afterwards. Although it deals with hi9 technology this book is primarily addressed to genera surgeons; the specialist sections, e.g. on gynaecologV' have been written with them in mind. It will therefore t>e especially useful to general surgeons approaching un familiar territory, particularly to those working in iso'a tion who have to tackle whatever problems preset themselves and to whom such a book is a boon and godsend. Of Mr Keen's team of collaborators half are from ̂ ?