Intravenous Injfection in Wound Shock: Being the Oliver-Sharpey Lectures Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London in May, 1918.

The importance of the problem of surgical shock as the result of surgical procedure in time of peace has long been recognized. Renewed interest in an experimental study of its causation and treatment was the result of the past war. Clinicians made a careful study of the abundant material, while laboratory workers searched anew for its cause and devised measures to combat the condition. The results of the latter investigations are incorporated in the present volume in the form of two lectures by Professor Bayliss, chairman of the Special Committee for the Investigation of Surgical Shock and Allied Conditions. Whereas Bayliss admits that the primary cause is still unknown, he feels certain that the most obvious sign of the condition, namely, the low blood pressure and the consequences that result therefrom, must be combated by the best means available after other factors that contribute toward its production (cold, absorption of