W. STERLING EDWARDS and PETER D. EDWARDS, Alexis Carrel. Visionary surgeon, Springfield, Ill., Charles C Thomas, 1974, 8vo, pp. xi, 143, illus., $5.00. Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) was an outstanding French-born surgeon who spent most of his professional life at the Rockefeller Institute, New York City (1903-1939). He received a Nobel Prize in 1912 and his main contributions were to vascular surge...

Arthur Eyre-Brook is an inveterate traveller. Since visiting the USA in 1937 as a Nuffield Scholar he has taken every opportunity to travel the world as a visiting Orthopaedic Surgeon, of latter years mainly in the third world. He has visited and worked, sometimes for long periods in Southern Africa, in the South West Pacific in Fiji and Tonga, in Brazil and Chile, in Kuwait and Iraw, in the Su...

verbal broadsides. Two chapters are devoted to differential diagnosis. rhe wvork is based on the author's experience of 1,000 operations for lumbar disc lesions, but he omits to state how nany cases this represents altogether. However, he mentions that operation is carried out in somewhere between 10 and 20 per cent of cases, so that he must have seen a veiy large rnulmber o,f patients with low...

Archibald Menzies, the 2nd son of a Highland gardener, was born in 1754. His father was the head gardener at Castle Menzies near Loch Tay, and the clan leader's distant relative. From him Archibald learnt respect for authority and the joy of growing things. In an atmosphere of secure prosperity young Archibald had a good practical and general education, working in the Castle gardens and grounds...