Diseases of the liver and biliary tract. Standardization of nomenclature, diagnostic criteria and diagnostic methodology. Edited Carroll M. Leevy, Hans Popper and Sheila Sherlock. 230 × 150 mm. Pp. 212 + xiv. 1976. Washington: The John E. Fogarty International Center. $4.90

✍ Scribed by L. P. Le Quesne

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 149 KB
• Volume: 64
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800640741

✦ Synopsis

THIS scholarly and admirably produced book deals with those who, over the centuries, have contributed to the surgery of the hand. It takes the form of biographical sketches, each supplemented by a portrait and facsimile of the title page or text of the subject's important contribution.

The author has interpreted the term 'hand surgery' freely and has includednot onlysurgeons, butanatomists, pathologists and neurologists or anyone who has influenced this subject.

Chronologically the litany of great names starts with Wurtz and Lapeyronie and passes through the era of Camper, Heberden, Cooper, Colles and Bell to Dupuytren, Duchenne, Little and those whose working life extended into this century. Among the more recent surgeons there is a concise appreciation of the contributions of such men as Robert Jones, Bunnell, Gilles, Mayer and Mason, but the author is at pains to emphasize the broad general approach to his subject and, though not using the term 'regional surgery', he is at pains to avoid describing hand surgery as a limited specialty.

Only one woman features in the sketches-Augusta Klumpke, who was born in San Francisco, moved to Lausanne and became the first woman to become an intern and extern in Paris when, at the age of 26, she published her celebrated work. She later married Dejerine. Some of those described lived an academic life with little fluctuation in their careers, but others had a more adventurous existence. John Reissberg Wolfe, who gave his name to the full-thickness skin graft and who is not to be confused with Julius Wolff of bone growth fame, was born in Breslau and at the age of 26 went to Glasgow where he became tutor in Hebrew to the Free Church. He published a Hebrew Grammar