No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
IN the preface of this work the author states that '' the day has gone by when the hospital care of the injured can be assigned to junior members of the visiting or house staff ". This dictum will undoubtedly be supported by progressive surgeons in all countries.
The reader will naturally assume that a text-book dealing with traumatic surgery will be in essence a work on the treatment of injuries of the locomotor system, and, above all, a monograph on fractures. It would seem that such is the author's predilection, but he has found himself compelled to cast his net far and wide, for we find collected into one field of surgery such widely varying conditions as fractures, foreign bodies in the air-passages and esophagus, penetrating injuries of the abdomen, gas poisoning, visceral prolapse, x-ray burns, and the traumatic neuroses. But traumatic surgery embracing a field so wide can hardly be said to be a definite entity, and still less a speciality, as claimed by the author. The inclusion of so much has necessarily made this work rather uneven, but it is in connection with the chapters on injuries of the bones and joints that it is to be judged. In these sections the experiences of the war have been drawn upon freely, and considerable space has bccn allotted to the technical details of the treatment of infected wounds by the methods of Carrel and others, and to the treatment in general of compound fractures of the femur. Such familiar features are to be expected in a work of this kind, and require no special comment.
This book, whilst presenting nothing new, will be useful as a work of reference, and particularly to surgeons who are far removed from contact with a large surgical centre.
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