A synopsis of the diagnosis of the acute surgical diseases of the abdomen. By John A. Hardy, B.Sc., M.D., F.A.C.S., El Paso, Texas. 8 3/4 × 5 1/4 in. Pp. 345, with 92 illustrations. 1938. London: Henry Kimpton. 20s. net

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1938
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 94 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.18002610232

✦ Synopsis

Gastric surgery is ably treated in three articles-on congenital pyloric stenosis, by Jewesbury and Max Page; on secondary gastrojejunal ulceration, by Romanis, and on perforating peptic ulcers, by Boggan. All three repay careful study, being examples of that most useful form of research, the analysis of results. One statement in the last-that "in spite of the unanimity of opinion amongst St. Thomas's surgeons, this is not shared by workers in other countries "-is delightfully reminiscent of the famous poster " Storm in the Channel. Continent Isolated."

Other articles of first-rate interest to the surgeon are those on the results of surgery in Graves' disease, by Goadby; on imperfect descent of the testes, by Mimpriss ; on the results of operations for femoral hernia, by Fergusson ; and on the control of infection in resection of the large bowel, by Nevin. Communications on subjects allied to surgery are those on the preparation of patients for operation, by Wilson; on the value of anzesthetic records, by Nosworthy; on the surgical treatment of ostosclerosis, by Howarth; and on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer of the lung, by Tchaperoff. This volume maintains the high standard of its predecessors, and is worth a place in any surgical library.