St. Bartholomew's hospital reports. Edited by Lord Horder of Ashford, W. Girling Ball, Ronald G. Canti, Charles F. Harris, Wilfred Shaw, H. H. Woollard, R. C Elmslie, Geoffrey Evans, and J. Paterson Ross. Demy 8vo. Pp. 279 + xxiv. Illustrated. 1934. London: John Murray. 21s. net

• Book ID: 101734317
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1935
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 91 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800238926

✦ Synopsis

FOR the writer the 1934 volume of these reports has a note of personal sadness, for it contains a short obituary notice of William Foster Cross, whose colleague the reviewer was privileged to be at the Fishmongers Hall Hospital for Officers during the war. The biographer very happily summarizes Cross's chief characteristic as an anaesthetist when he says " that to be really appreciated as a man he had to be seen contending with a fractious surgeon and a difficult patient ". Besides being a most competent anzesthetist, Cross was always obliging to those with whom he had to work, and his consideration and patience for nerve-shattered officers was extraordinary considering the claims he had on his time.

The problem of peptic ulcer is considered anatomically, pathologically, and surgically, in some very full and careful papers : we cannot find that the matter is advanced appreciably.

Professor Fraser, Sir Thomas Dunhill, and Dr. Spence similarly deal very thoroughly with the toxic goitre in its anatomical, physiological, and surgical aspects : this is a most comprehensive piece of work which brings the matter right up to date, and must be a most valuable guide to those who are interested in the treatment of patients suffering from this disease.