Demonstrations of Physical Signs in Clinical Surgery

the examination of a patient. A very few minutes will enable the experienced to decide whether a candidate knows his clinical work or not. This book, which is on much the same lines as Legars' more ambitious work, is an epitome of a course of demonstrations on physical signs delivered to students, and it should not only be helpful to them but to junior teachers also. Some general physical signs such as fluctuation, translucency, crepitus, pulsation are first dealt with, after which the regions of the body are systematically surveyed and the methods of examination detailed with brief references to special signs of which quite an amazing number are given, many of them little known. If the information is somewhat disjointed in its arrangement, it is nevertheless very sound and its value is much enhanced by the