Primary Surgery: Non-Trauma/ edited by Maurice H. King ... [et al.]. ; illustrated by Derek Atherton ... [et al.].

includes index

The background to surgery; theatres, antiseptics, and antibiotics; the control of bleeding; basic methods and instruments; the surgery of sepsis - draining abcesses; pus in the pleura, the pericardium, the peritoneum, and the pelvis; pus in the muscles, bones and joints; pus in the hands and feet; methods for abdominal surgery; the acute abdomen - intestinal obstruction; the stomach; the appendix; the gall-bladder, pancreas, and spleen; hernias; the surgery of conception; the surgery of pregnancy; the medicine of pregnancy; the surgery of labour; other obstetric problems; gynaecology; the breast and the thyroid; proctology; urology; the eye; the ear, nose and throat; the teeth and the mouth; orthopaedics; paediatric surgery; surgery, AIDS and hepatitis B; the surgery of tuberculosis; the surgery of leprosy; the surgery of "tropical" diseases; oncology; terminal care. Appendices: equipment; addresses of suppliers.

The first of a four-volume system of surgery, anaesthetics and obstetrics for doctors in the district hospitals of the developing world. They describe what a doctor can do if he cannot refer a patient, both in emergency and for "cold surgery".