Anatomical Eponyms

DEMONSTRATIONS OF PHYSICAL SiGNS IN CLINICAL SURGERY. By Hamilton Bailey, F.R.C.S. Tenth Edition (revised). Pp. 375. '"SYMPTOMS and Signs in Clinlical Surgery" has probably made the name of Hamilton Bailey familiar to more generations of medical students than any olther of hlis books, and the tenth edition will enhalnce thle reputations of both writer and publislher (John Wright & Sons Ltd.). It is notable for an economy of wor(is, which is only made possible by the lavish use of excellent photographs, including many in colour, and by stusIiously a.voiding side-tracks into the realms of treatment or special investigation. Tlle p)hoto of the small group of homely articles which constitute his diagnostic equipmenit is a salutory reminder to those who think ever more in terms of X-rays and laborator-y tests, that the systematic clinical examination of the patient comes first. As so often stressed by a recent teacher of this school, mistakes are most often made, not because we don't know, but because we don't look! The section on the feet may seem rather brief and over-simplified to those of us who, in the last few years, have suffered too close an acquaintance with the defects pertaining to these overstressed organs of locomotion, but the field is, in the main, most adequately covered in a refreshingly readable style. Every student, qualified or unqualified, should acquire it. W. S. B.