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lesion would be a laborious and useless task. The 
plan adopted by Professor Bryant has been to 
select such procedures that experience and judg- 
ment recommend as the best, and it is in mak- 
ing the selections that the author has shown his 
ability to write a good book. Not only have 
there been shown unusually good discriminating 
powers in the choice of selecting the various 
methods, but the views of the author are un- 
hesitatingly given when differing from the gen- 
erally accepted opinions; so that we have some- 
thing more than a compilation of previously de- 
scribed surgical operations. . . . An extended 
review of the above work, while desirable, is not 
allowable from the limited space at our command. 
However, we can assure our readers that, after a 
careful reading of Professor Bryant’s book, we can 
unhesitatingly recommend it for information, re- 
liability, and guidance on all connected with opera- 
tive surgery The publishers’ part of the work is 
unusually good, and the numerous illustrations add 
much to its value.””— Polyclinic. 
“The book is one which we feel sure will recom- 
mend itself. . . . We would say that the book ‘ met 
a long-felt want,’ if we dared to use the phrase. 
The general practitioner who occasionally does a 
little surgery, particularly the ‘dweller in the 
country or small town,’ will find this book invalu- 
able, for he can turn in a minute to the very place 
he wants, and find there an intelligent description 
of instruments, operation, and dressing.” —Mary- 
land Medical Journal, 
“The various operative procedures are clearly 
and concisely described, and the results of the 
various operations briefly stated... . The work 
is fully abreast of the most recent advances 
in operative surgery, and we have much pleasure 
a" sjoomimiensing it to our readers.”—Canada 
ancet. 
“|. . In concluding our notice of Professor 
Bryant’s book, it remains for us to congratulate 
him upon the successful result of his labor. He 
has written a very able and reliable surgical work 
one that may be consulted both by surgeon and 
student, and one that contains all the more im- 
ortant advances of modern surgery. The pub- 
ishers’ part of the work has been well done, and 
the numerous illustrations add much to the value 
of the volume.’’— Therapeutic Gazette, 
BUCK. Contributions to Reparative Surgery, showing its Applica- 
tion to the Treatment of Deformities, produced by Destructive Disease 
or Injury ; Congenital Defects from Arrest or Excess of Development ; 
and Cicatricial Contractions following Burns. 
By Gurpon Bucs, M.D. 
and fine Engravings. 
Cloth, $3.00. 
Illustrated by Thirty Cases 
8vo. 287 pages. 
SPrcmMENs OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
“There is io department of surgery where the ingenuity and skill of the surgeon are more severely 
taxed than when required to repair the damaye sustained by the loss of 
arts, or to remove the disfig- 
urement produced by destructive disease or violence, or to remedy the eformities of congenital mal- 
‘formation, 
factory achievements of modern surgery. The term ‘ Reparative Surgery’ 
The results obtained in such cases within the last half-century are among the most satis- 
chosen as the title of this 
volume, though it may, in a comprehensive sense, be applied to the treatment of a great variety of 
lesions to which the body is liable, is, however, re: 
under the author’s own observation, and has been su > the 0 2 
It largely embraces the treatment of lesions of the face, a region in which plastic surger 
Another and no less important class of lesions wi c 
are of the author’s attention, viz., cicatricial contractions following burns. 
frequent and important appliestions. 
to have occupied a large s 
stricted in this work exclusively to what has fallen 
‘bjected to the test of experience in his own practice. 
finds its most 
also be found 
While these cases have a very strong claim upon our commiseratiun, and should stimulate us, = ae 
geons, to the greatest efforts for their relief, they have too often in the past been dismissed as hope! = y 
incurable. The satisfactory results obtained in the cases reported in this volume will encourage other 
surgeons, we trust, to resort with greater hopefulness in the future to gperiive interference. Accuracy 
of description and clearness of statement have been aimed at in the fol 
lowing pages; and if, in his en- 
deavor to attain this important end, the author has incurred the reproach of tediousness, the difficulty 
of the task must be his apology.” Extract from Preface. 
