The Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen

SIR ZACHARY COPE'S book is written and presented in a style no longer acceptable. Some of the content is repetitive, some imaginative and some irrelevant. Nevertheless, the author describes clinical facts and observations of value which we are in danger of overlooking today. If the content of the book was re-styled to make it more incisive then, in a smaller contribution, we would have a more readable and more useful volume. In its present form its chief interest will be to those with clinical experience, who are prepared to plough through its pages to obtain the reminders and the insights which can undoubtedly be gleaned from it.