Body Fluids in Surgery

THIS book quickly reveals to anyone who has to see such injuries the wide experience and skill that the authors have to draw on. It is full of helpful clinical and practical operative advice where this is sought, but the real message of this edition seems to be encouragement to undertake more meticulous and extensive primary repairs. The classification of hand wounds into "Tidy and Untidy" immediately appealed to my experience as did the criticism of what appears to be a growing tendency to leave extensor tendon injuries splinted but unsutured. Numerous illustrations of the various lesions are included and good advice is given to those who might lighthcartedly undertake wlvat must be painstaking surgery. The book is thoroughly recommended to all who concern themselves with hand injuries; whether this be active operative interest or only medico-legal evaluation of the results, the knowledge within its covers will give the reader a much better grasp of the possibilities of repair. R. H. L.