Facial surgery. By H. P. Pickerill, C.B.E., M.D., M.S., Surgeon-in-Charge, Facial and Jaw Department, Dunedin Hospital. With an Introduction by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., C.B., M.S. 4to. Pp. 162, with many illustrations, and frontispiece in colour. 1924. Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone. 21s. net

• Book ID: 101729829
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1926
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 172 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800135129

✦ Synopsis

Pp. 212 + x, with 9 line drawings. 1925. London: Oxford Medical Publishers. 8s. 6d. net. THIS small book is intended chiefly as a guide t o diagnosis, and not as a guide to treatment. The author is impressed with the fact that the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease is now left largely in the hands of specialists, and further t h a t the patient only seeks the advice of such specialist under the guidance of uninformed instinct. He would reinstate the general practitioner into the important position which he held more than thirty years ago, when t h e family doctor was always the first to be consulted about illness, and made it his business t o make a diagnosis and then to advise consultation with a specialist if necessary.

Brevity, clearness, and simplicity mark every page, and illustrative examples arc given of all the conditions described.