Best of
Medicine

1957

Atlas of Human Anatomy, Volume 2: Trunk, Viscera, Lower Limb


Johannes Sobotta - 1957
    Volume Two covers the trunk and lower extremities. Many of the black-and-white illustrations have been converted to color in this edition, and chapter figures include orientational diagrams to give students much needed structural references

Guerilla Surgeon


Lindsay Rogers - 1957
    He volunteered for special service in SOE and then found himself set down one dark night on the Isle of Vis, off the Dalmatian Coast. His job was to work as a surgeon among Yugoslav partisans; to fight with them, to tend the wounded and to act as an unofficial liaison officer between them and the Allied troops. For many months to come, in caves and deep in the forests, up mountains, he brought his skill as a surgeon, his staunchness and bravery as a serving soldier to his strange job.In Guerilla Surgeon he tells his story.

The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness


Michael Balint - 1957
    With practical advice on the potential and limits to the doctors involvement with the patient.A new Foreword by the authors son placing his fathers work in the context of the new millenium. Across the world there are thousands of Balint groups/societies that have a growing number of members keen to read the work of their founding fatherForeword by the original authors son.