RT Journal
T1 Old masterpieces in surgery: Being a collection of thoughts and observations engendered by a perusal of some of the works of our forbears in surgery.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD September 21
VO 93
IS 12
SP 945
OP 945
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710120057043
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710120057043
AB With a persistence and an erudition that can come only from true love of his material, Dr. Brown has been publishing each month for some years bibliographic material relative to surgery. In the present volume he has gathered sketches of ancient works in this field which contain biographies of ancient masters in surgery, facsimiles of their works, including title pages, illustrations and photographs, and literary notes concerning the real source books in the surgical field. The student of medical history will find the contribution delightful for its authenticity and particularly for its directness and brevity. The reproductions are good beyond imagining and their quality accounts no doubt for the price at which the work is made generally available. In any event, medical history is always a labor of love and the audience, at least in our country, pitifully small.