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By C. Stuart Welch, M.S., M.D., Ph.D., and Samuel R. Powers Jr., A.B., M.D., M.Sc.D. Price, not given. Pp. 320, with 50 illustrations. W. B. Saunders Company, 218 W. Washington Sq., Philadelphia 5, 1958.

Robert T. Soper, M.D., Reviewer

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1959;103(2):341-342.

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This book deals with the principles basic to surgery. It is a book of generalities, briefly presenting specific entities to illustrate these principles only.

A very interesting sketch of surgical history introduces the book. Then follows the definition of surgery as the management of acute injury and a discussion of its three subdivisions, which include loss of body tissue (wounds and wound healing), loss of body fluids, and infection. Time-honored principles of pre- and postoperative care are presented, and then the rudiments of operative technique are discussed, including asepsis, hemostasis, and soft tissue dissection. A warning against overspecialization is sounded. The book next deals with the major categories of operative procedures, defined by the authors as extirpative, reconstructive, and physiologic surgery and the treatment of wounds. A brief chapter on anesthesiology, contributed by Gerard Converse, M.D., concludes the book.

The format of the book is pleasing; the index adequate, and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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