TY  - JOUR
T1  - A short practice of surgery.
AU  - Buckwalter J
Y1  - 1959/07/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270070176036
JO  - A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 174
EP  - 174
VL  - 104
IS  - 1
N2  - 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
SN  - 0888-2479
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270070176036
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270070176036
ER  -