Book Review

Few surgical textbooks survive for more than a decade. Bailey and Love's Short Practice of Surgery turns 60 this year and is going strong under the editorship of Charles V. Mann and R.C.G. Russell. It is read worldwide and used in facilities as diverse as medical schools and jungle hospitals. No book illustrates the difference between British and American textbook writing better than this one. It retains a style that is obsolete in the United States. The concise, almost cryptic, descriptions of clinical problems and their management are unchanged in scope and depth from those in earlier editions. It is . . .