To keep up to date in one's owns ialty is obligatory and to keep up to date in everyone else's is Elitated by review articles Sevenoaks: Hodder & Stoughton: €3.54. IN an discipline, and particularly in specialties within that discipine, the boundary between accepted fact and opinion is blurred. In few specialties is this boundary as ill defined as it is in vascular surgery, and the difficulty created for an author who is restrained to writing a relatively dogmatic text is compounded when one recalls how often our cherished beliefs turn out to be fiction.
Mr R. E. Horton is to be congratulated on overcoming these difficulties so admirably and producing a concise and readable book. Although intended primarily for nurses? it is likely to be of value to a wider audience. The matenal is arranged in a simple and lo@cal way, illustrated by excellent line drawings.
Specialists in the subject will find much with which they disagree and nurses may find local practice differs considerably from that described in the book. This is not a bad thing in that it may generate questions and stimulate the readers' curiosity. The book is part of a series and maintains the standard of excellence associated with the 'Modem Nursing' series.