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THIS little book provides a concise but comprehensive description of the most important types of war injury. Mr. D. W. C. Northfield has given an excellent clarification of the relations between tho clinical picture and the underlying pathological changes in head injuries, and his summarization of the treatment is most helpful. Dr. Douglas McAlpine has surveyed spinal cord lesions well, but although he quotes Watson Jones, he has failed to emphasize the types of injury in which it is dangerous to reduce the deformity by manipulation and in which open reduction is necessary to prevent either the onset or progression of a paraplegia.
Special Surgery in Wartime
By D. W. C. Northfield Dr. Douglas McAlpine Dr. V. Zachary Cope T. Holmes Sellors A. B. Wallace.(The Practitioner Booklets.) Pp. vii + 74. (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers), Ltd., 1940.) 6s. net.
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Special Surgery in Wartime. Nature 146, 822 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146822d0
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