A synopsis of Surgery. By Ernest W. Hey Groves, M.S., M.D., B.Sc. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), Consulting Surgeon to the Bristol General and Municipal Hospitals, and to the Treloar Cripples' Hospital, Alton, Hants; etc. Eleventh Edition. 7 1/4 × 4 7/8 in. pp. 714 + viii, with 195 illustrations and 13 coloured plates. 1940. Bristol: John Wright & Sons Ltd. 17s. 6d. net

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1940
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 175 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.18002810920

✦ Synopsis

Northern and Metropolitan Hospitals; etc. 7) x 4$ in. Pp. 379 + viii, with 155 illustrations. 1940. London: H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. 12s. 6d. net.

MINOR surgery, as the author states in his preface, is difficult to define. There are no natural or artificial boundaries between it and so-called major surgery. The present volume " i s intended to be a guide to hospital residents and an aid to practitioners who from choice or necessity feel called to deal with minor surgical problems or common surgical emergencies ".