Surgical Treatment

fact that there are differences in the ability of various surgeons is also recognised and the reader of this book can take his choice of methods. The opening chapters describe what may be called the ground work of surgery, asepsis, surgical materials, anaesthesia, etc., and then goes on to wounds, inflammations, surgical fevers and infections; the treatment of syphilis is particularly well described. Further chapters are on blood vessels, fractures and dislocations, operations on bones, joints and their appendages, terminating with the surgery of the nerves. The book is well written, easily read and the descriptions of the various procedures concisely and clearly given; it should prove useful not alone to the beginner, but also as a book of