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the fingers gently to feel, grasp, or retract muscle bellies or neurovascular bundles. Even taking into consideration all the advantages of the no-touch technique, it must be acknowledged that an instrument can rarely be as gentle and can never be as sensitive as the finger, and with proper precautions the fingers may be used with safety.
The excellence of the illustrations, which must be the product of much study of operations, dissections, and pictures, is beyond all praise, and the whole is flavoured by the author's happy knack of making the English language as extensile as his exposures. It would be well if this book were to be studied by teachers of anatomy as well as by surgeons, since Henry's enthusiasm might even lead to a revival of interest in topographical anatomy which is now so much despised and is therefore so neglected.
Catgut : Les Ligatures et les Sutures chirurgicales travers les Ages. By Dr. A. FANDRE. With a Preface by Professor LOUIS BRUNTZ, Nancy. 9+ x T I C E S O F B O O K S
British surgeons will find this volume of value as a book of reference.
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As he tells us in the Preface, his aim has been to write an ideal student's text-book. Both in the section on general principles (121 pages) and in that of fractures of special bones, the author follows the lines usually laid down in this country and abroad. It is interesting to one who has watched