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Two volumes, boxed. By Sir Harold Gillies and D. Ralph Millard Jr., with Foreword by Jerome Pierce Webster, M.D., Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Price, $35.00. Pp. 690, with 2472 illustrations (122 in color). Little, Brown & Company, 34 Beacon St., Boston 6, 1957.

AMA Arch Otolaryngol. 1957;66(3):369.

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In many respects this is the most extraordinary book that has ever been given to me for review. It is in greater part a visual exhibit, with hundreds of plates, diagrams, and photographs in black and white and in color. The horrors of war wounds of the head and neck are illustrated in such detail that one fairly shudders at "man's inhumanity to man." This is somewhat offset by the wit and humor which crop up unexpectedly and leaven the sorrowful loaf. Such humor, needless to say, is unusual in a scientific work. Moreover, it makes reading of the text highly enjoyable. To paraphrase the radio ads: "After buying it you'll be so glad you did."

No review can do full justice to these two volumes. We can merely be astonished at the enormous amount of detail, research, and "reporting" which is the background of the work. Of course, no . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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