RT Journal
A1 Buckwalter J
T1 A short practice of surgery.
JF A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
JO A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1959
FD July 1
VO 104
IS 1
SP 174
OP 174
DO 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270070176036
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270070176036
AB The title is surely a misnomer; this is not so short a "practice of surgery." The authors attempt to cover all of clinical surgery, including subspecialties, such as cardiopulmonary, otolaryngology, urology, and orthopedics. The effort to provide "something for everybody" has not been fully successful. The text tends to be elementary and superficial and will be of little use to qualified surgeons. Most discussions of diagnosis and treatment are consistent with current informed thought, although some are belabored and irrelevant. An example of this is the section on infections in general, tuberculosis in particular. Graphic and photographic illustrations are plentiful and usually clarify the text. The techniques of a well-chosen group of operations are briefly described and will be useful to the medical student but not to the experienced surgeon. The absence of documentation and bibliography further reduces the usefulness of this text to the trained physician. British rhetoric helps