Surgery of the Hand

THIIS work is divided into three parts -Infections, Injuries, and Other Surgical Lesions. The first two parts contain detailed accounts of infections and injuries, the essential features of which are clearly shown in many beautiful X-ray plates and diagrams. In fact, much instruction is to be gained by a study of the illustrations alone. The author is to be congratulated on his excellent exposition of the general principles underlying the treatment of these conditions. The methods of treatment are clearly described, and the importance of operating on a hand rendered bloodless by sphygomanometric pressuLre and under general anaesthesia is stressed on several occasions in various parts of the book. The chapter on restoration of function is among the best of many good chapters, and throughout there is the tendency, highly to be commended, to wvrite in simple language and with practical detail devoid of unnecessary theory. The third part of the book has been rather condensed, and, compared wvith the other sections, appears in the light of a synopsis of rare surgical conditions of the hand. It is to be hoped when a second edition of this wvork is published, that the third part will be rewritten more fully and with the same attention to detail which characterises the ear-lier chapters. Mr. Handfield-Jonies is to be congratulated on a book which should soon find its way into the libraries of all practising surgeons.