TY - JOUR AB - 222 THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY It is therefore refreshing to see another volume Rodney Smith, who delivered a Hunterian Lecture dealing with diagnostic radiology. This book is dedi- on Intestinal Obstruction last year, gives an excellent cated to Sir Charles Max Page, who in the past was a survey of the various varieties of intestinal obstruction strong advocate of the use of X rays in injuries to the and stresses the value of suction drainage not only in skeleton and had an X-ray installation in his own house. cases of obstruction but also as a prophylactic measure. Lord Horder writes a Foreword and is enthusiastic He also insists, quite rightly, on the necessity for control about the great help diagnostic radiology gives to the of dehydration, the control of proximal intestinal dilata- clinician. tion, and the avoidance of peritoneal soiling during There are some thirty-one chapters in this book and operation. each chapter is written by an expert in each particular This book is full of sound practical surgical common branch of diagnostic radiology. Some of the authors sense and it should be read by all surgeons who have come from the United States, France, Denmark, Norway, to TI - Dupuytren's contraction. With special references to aetiology and improved surgical treatment, its occurrence in epileptics, note on knuckle-pads. By Tond Skoog, Uppsala. Being Supp. 139, Vol. XCVI, Acta chirurgica Scandinavica. Translated by Erica Odelberg. 9⅛ × 5⅞ in. Pp. 190, with 50 illustrations. 1948. Stockholm: Norstedt & Söner. No price given JO - British Journal of Surgery DO - 10.1002/bjs.18003614235 DA - 1948-10-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/dupuytren-s-contraction-with-special-references-to-aetiology-and-LiQyyGF387 SP - 222 EP - 222 VL - 36 IS - 142 DP - DeepDyve ER -