Edited by William L. Donnellan, with John D. Burrington, Ken Kimura, Joseph C. Shäfer, and John J. White. 1424 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. Amsterdam, Harwood Academic, 1996. $375. ISBN 3-7186-5409-1.
In the 1920s, there were only three surgeons in North Americawhose practices were limited to children. One of them, Dr. WilliamE. Ladd, organized a training program in pediatric surgery atthe Boston Children's Hospital in the 1930s. His superb clinical,teaching, and investigative skills, combined with his legendarypersonal attributes, stimulated many young surgeons to trainwith him in this exciting new specialty. They, in turn, organizedtheir own training programs at other medical centers throughoutthe country. The subsequent growth of this highly academic specialtyhas been spectacular. The original North American textbook onpediatric surgery, Abdominal . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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