A Textbook of Surgery

An imposing array of surgeons has been mustered to compile a textbook of surgery of exceptional value and authority. The constant state of flux permeating the field of surgical knowledge has created in its wake a host of specialists in a field already highly technical. These specialists have combined their efforts to produce in almost seventeen hundred full pages a standard surgery. This would seem to be the ideal way for a modern textbook on surgery to be written. The material content expresses the opinion of each author and, while differences exist, it is impossible for a reviewer to draw conclusions on the individual contributions. He must either concur or differ with the mode of presentation, a duty which is rightfully relinquished to the discriminating reader. The comprehensive scope of this single volume makes it a genuine epitome of modern surgery. General surgery and the specialties alike are subdivided and