By Michael R.B. Keighley and Norman S. Williams. 2448 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1993. $295. ISBN 0-7020-1278-5.
It was impossible in the time available for review of this textbookto do justice to the stunning amount of scholarship and effortthat went into its making. As one experiences the rites of passagein becoming a surgeon, one encounters along the way rare, monumentalworks that are never forgotten, such as the British editionof Gray's Anatomy or later, for me, Professor John Goligher'sSurgery of the Anus, Rectum and Colon (London: Bailliere Tindall,1984). Somehow these books speak to us as would mentors andportray experience, rather than simply reciting then-currentinformation. Professors Keighley and Williams have . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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