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By Sherwin B. Nuland. 274 pp. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2000. $24. ISBN 0-684-85486-4.

In this book, Nuland combines his long experience of research into early beliefs about the nature and function of major visceral organs (stomach, heart, spleen, liver, and uterus) with anecdotes about each of these organs drawn from his 35-year surgical career. The result is an understanding of the affection that this surgeon has developed for these organs over the many years. We are treated to his personal insights through these stories and come to realize not only his admiration for the anatomical beauty of the variations of our innards, but also the fears surgeons privately shoulder during the operating-room battle. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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