Practical Fracture Treatment (2nd Edition)

incident involving toxic chemicals. The long table of health hazard summaries for industrial and occupational chemicals may well be useful under such circumstances, as may the list of suspected human carcinogens. These have less relevance for the practising Accident and Emergency (A&E) physician but this section is brief and worth keeping within the clinical manual as a reference source. The only small disappointment was that a book described as the 'Intemational Edition' should detail lists of poisons centres and methods of labelling toxic compounds during transport, relating only to the United States. However, despite that, it is an extremely useful and easily read, well set out source of information that should be in every A&E department and probably in the pocket of anyone involved in the emergency management of a poisoned patient.