[First Edition] Surgery in the Tropics Sir Frank Powell...

SURGERY IN THE TROPICS.- -By Sir Frank Powell Connor 1929. Pp. IX plus 293, with 99 illustrations. Price, 12s. 6d. Sir Frank Connor and the Calcutta Medical College are to be congratulated on this excellent little book, the publication of which is fully justified. It is meant to supplement the teaching of the ordinary textbooks, and the author's objectives, to confine the subject into a reasonably small space, and to present a picture of surgery as practiced in the tropics, have been fully attained. The chapters on the surgical aspects of the dysenteries, arid of infections caused by parasitic worms and insects, which occupy its greater part are well and clearly written. An excellent account of the various complications of amoebiasis is evidence that much thought and research have been devoted to these affections in Calcutta, while there is a very good description of the puzzling pathology and of the treatment of'filariasis. The peculiarities tuberculosis and syphilis, as met with in the tropics, are concisely and fairly described, and the book also contains a very good account of tropical granulomata. ^ is a pity that limitations of time and space have not Permitted a fuller discussion of the diseases caused by Pyogenic and non-pyogenic bacteria and of the influence of diabetes which, more than anything in the tropics, can *est a surgeon's capacity. The notes on anthrax (no Mention is made of treatment with salvarsan) and on tetanus are disappointingly brief, but we hope to see a fiiore detailed account of these and other surgical conditions in a fuller volume at which the author hints in be preface. The illustrations are many and good, though Perhaps the addition of a few more pictures of patho- ogical specimens and slides would have been of great help lo the student. The few case reports that are included j*re excellent, we wish there had been space for more. The ??k concludes with an interesting appendix of the Prevalence of diseases in India, mainly based on a survey Attempted by the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. pack of accurate record keeping by any except the larger hospitals in India, render the compilation of such a review extremely difficult, but the tables reproduced give e reader a very good idea of the scopc of tropical rgery and complete an extremely interesting and useful. The book is very well produced and should l rove popular in the medical colleges and schools of the country.

估價:$75

查看所有物品來自AbeBooks或Books, Maps & Manuscripts