RT Journal
T1 PRactice of surgery, clinical, diagnostic, operative and postoperative.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD April 27
VO 92
IS 17
SP 1474
OP 1475
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700430076039
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700430076039
AB Attention has already been called to the excellent character of the monographs on bones and joints in the first volume of this work. Volume I might appropriately be designated the "Book of General Surgery." Its divisions include case histories, diagnosis, anesthesia, materials of surgery, aseptic technic, wounds, hemorrhage, shock, surgical infections, serum therapy, preoperative and postoperative care, diabetes in surgery, diet, and postoperative respiratory infections. The chapter on general anesthesia, with chloroform, ether and nitrous oxide, contains an historical outline, a discussion of the physiology of anesthesia, and the practical aspects of the subject. This chapter represents a fine piece of work. In the last few years there has been a wave of enthusiasm for spinal anesthesia, the indiscriminate use of which is decidedly dangerous, particularly in incompetent hands. The extreme reserve and caution exercised by the author of this chapter is commendable; thus, he says that "as spinal anesthesia