TEXTBOOK OF SURGERY

Abstract

TEXTBOOK OF SURGERY Edited by David A. Macfarlane and Lewis P. Thomas with a Foreword by Norman C. Tanner. (Pp. 772; 395 illustrations. 60s.) Edinburgh and London. E. & S. Livingstone Ltd. 1964. This is a book which the authors have directed toward the final year student, with the hope that it will also attract qualified practitioners who may use it as a guide to further study. Under the general title of 'Surgical aspects of infection and inflammation', there is an all too brief introduction to bacteriology and infections and inflammation. It would be better to omit such basic descriptions altogether than use this potted version. As a pathologist, one would naturally feel that inflammation, which usually needs a whole chapter, bacteriological aspects of acute and chronic infections, and ward, theatre, and hospital