The Craft of Surgery

Abstract

The Craft of Surgery , in three volumes, is an expanded second edition of a successful text which first appeared in 1965 in a two-volume form. In an earlier review of the original publication, it was pointed out that this ambitious work attempts, largely by textual discussion, but enhanced by carefully and efficiently chosen illustrations, to bring to the reader a flavor of the hand-me-down pearls of operative technique; the sort of material often discussed and demonstrated in the operating room, but rarely published. The device continues to fill an important gap in the literature devoted to surgical technique and brings to the reader—whether he be highly experienced or novice—the sort of information one usually finds only by watching surgeons at work. It adds refinement to many of the currently available descriptions found in surgical atlases and also preserves invaluable individualized subtleties of approach to commonly encountered problems in the operating