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By Ira M. Rutkow. 550 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby-Year Book, 1993. $99. ISBN 0-8016-6078-5.

Here is the most recent project of the remarkably prolific Ira Rutkow. Among his recent books are the two volumes of his History of Surgery in the United States (1775-1900): Textbooks, Monographs and Treatises (San Francisco: Norman, 1988) and Periodicals and Pamphlets (San Francisco: Norman, 1992). Although this new book is not confined to a discussion of surgery in the United States, it has the same impressive properties as the previous two-volume work: a magnificent appearance; a wonderful assortment of illustrations, charts, diagrams, and drawings; a scholarly text; and an eclectic view of its subject.

Many histories of world surgery . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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