No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
THIS book appears at an opportune time when surgeons and anzesthetists the world over are deeply interested in this all too frequent condition. Hospitals on both sides of the Atlantic have been at pains to provide emergency equipment which can be used at a moment's notice.
Professor Stephenson has certainly presented the medical profession with an excellent monograph which contains a wealth of information that it would be very difficult to find elsewhere.
The operative technique for dealing with cardiac arrest is well described and illustrated. The pros and cons of opening the pericardium are well debated and the reader is left in no uncertainty as to what the author himself advises.
In these days of operations on septa1 defects in the heart this book will prove of real value.
A most comprehensive bibliography is to be found at the end of this book and this bibliography itself should prove of positive value and make the book more useful for reference purposes.
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With a Foreword by G. GAVIN MILLER. Second edition. 10 x 6; in. Pp. 1136 -t xxiv, with 571 illustrations and 79 coloured plates. 1955. St. Louis : C. V. Mosby Co. (London : Henry Kimpton.) L6. THAT a second edition of this work was required within three years is no surprise to British surgeons, for