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is all the more remarkable as he has just published a volume of selections from his papers and speeches, which range from " The Personal Side of Pepys " t o " Medical Paris during the Reign of Louis Phillippe". His quotation on the fly-leaf of a charming verse from W. W. Story's Contemporanj Criticism would at once disarm any reviewer who had critical intentions, but nevertheless, the present writer, claiming to be no less a lover of Dickens than Dr. DaCosta himself, must dissent from the misquotation of a paragraph most aptly introduced into the preface of this edition. Operative Surgery : General and Special Considerations. By Dr. MARTIN KIRSCHNER (Tubingen), authorized translation by I. S. RAVDIN, B.S., M.D. (Philadelphia). Super royal 8vo. Pp. 666 + xii, with 746 illustrations, mostly coloured. 1931. London : J. B. Lippincott Co. TIIE drawings in this book are most artistic, and nearly all of them are coloured. It remains questionable, however, whether the illustrations are not overdone. Many of them are quite unnecessary, for methods and instruments are illustrated which the author confesses are of little value or out of date. Apart from this, i t is a firstclass book.
The house surgeon will pick up from it many useful tips. Particularly well written is the chapter on the control of pain. All the more recent anaesthetics and the
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