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AB - REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS The operative technique for the removal of parietal series of essays, will prove of real value to all who are pleural pulmonary blebs and bullae by wedge resection is interested in the progress of the surgery of the nervous described in detail and well illustrated. system. Three separate chapters are devoted to descriptions of Cushing lived at a time when medicine and surgery had the clinical syndrome and one chapter is devoted to progressed from the primitive era of blood-letting and spontaneous pneumothorax in the newborn. purging to more modern methods of treatment. His long It is a pity that the index of this book is not up to the life witnessed a progress in anaesthesia, blood transfusion, standard of the text. There is no reference in the index control of bleeding in the brain and spinal cord, and the to treatment, surely an omission. An excellent reference use of ventricular puncture. X-rays were almost unknown book. and very little surgery of the brain was undertaken. There is a very pleasing drawing of Cushing by Deane Keller and a photograph by Walker Willard Boyd. Injury: The British Journal of Accident Surgery. There are many 
TI - A synopsis of surgical anatomy. By Alexander Lee McGregor, M.Ch., F.R.C.S., Johannesburg, and D. J. du Plessis, Ch.M., F.R.C.S., Johannesburg. Tenth edition. 7¼ × 4¾ in. Pp. 894+xii, with 802 illustrations. 1969. Bristol: John Wright & Sons Ltd. 42s
JF - British Journal of Surgery
DO - 10.1002/bjs.1800561037
DA - 1969-10-01
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SP - 799
EP - 799
VL - 56
IS - 10
DP - DeepDyve
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