TY - JOUR T1 - Operative surgery: General principles and breast AU - Eisenberg M Y1 - 1969/04/07 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1969.03160010152042 JO - JAMA SP - 156 EP - 156 VL - 208 IS - 1 N2 - Operative Surgery: Thorax  edited by W. P. Cleland, ed 2; 426 pp, with illus, $31, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1968.There is no longer a dearth of atlases available for surgical education. The vacuum, once only partially filled by one or two satisfactory texts, now no longer exists. There are excellent presentations of standard operative techniques in general abdominal and thoracic and cardiovascular procedures. Any emerging text at this time must, therefore, compete in fairly sophisticated company.These two volumes from part of a large series of books on operative surgery, are designed to describe techniques in surgery of the eyes, ears, nose, and throat, general abdominal surgery, the hand, head and neck, neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, and, finally, vascular surgery. The volumes are obtainable as a set or individually and must be judged on their individual merits.The first volume devotes itself to general considerations in surgery SN - 0098-7484 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1969.03160010152042 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160010152042 ER -