Manual of Surgery (Kaplan Classics of Medicine)

By Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson

This edition of The Manual of Surgery is a fascinating-- and graphic--look into medical history. Some of the techniques first published in this Victorian era manual are still in use today. Popular... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1427797994
• ISBN13: 9781427797995
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.4" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Exellent!

I enjoyed so much reading this book, but history of medicine it's been my hobby for a long time now. This book is a synopsis of the surgery specialty around 1920s. The book is unexpectedly modern in terms of surgical diseases it describes but much outdated when it comes to pathophysiology and treatment. The reason I highly recommend reading this book is best stated in the foreword by Dr. Pestana: "[The book] puts our profession [surgery] in perspective. We have indeed come a long way. But let's not get too proud of our surgical practice in the first decade of the 21st century. When our textbooks are reprinted a hundred years from now, their pages will look as quaint and dated as those that you now hold in your hands. We simply built upon what they built. "The manual of Surgery" is not only fascinating to read, but it also represents the foundation of what we do today."