The History of Cardiac Surgery, 1896-1955
Abstract
The Scalpel and the Heart, by Robert G. Richardson, 323 pp, 23 illus. $8.95, New York: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1970.
The progress from the first hesitant approaches to cardiac surgery up to the present makes a story which, if presented even a century ago as "science fiction," would have seemed absurd. Two new books which describe this progress cover much the same material but have quite different formats and, apparently, aim at rather different audiences....