The Pancreas, Its Surgery and Pathology.

Abstract

The present monograph by Robson and Cammidge is the successor of a previous volume by Robson and Moynihan on the same subject. The association of a surgeon whose experience in the treatment of diseases of the pancreas is as large as that of Robson with an expert physiologic chemist has resulted in a volume which is destined to take first rank in treatises on this subject. As stated in the preface, there seems to be an impression in the minds of nearly all members of the profession that diseases of the pancreas, excepting some of the grosser lesions, are unrecognizable during life, but a careful perusal of the chapter on "General Symptomatology and Diagnosis" should leave no doubt as to the presence or absence of pancreatic trouble in any particular case, and in the larger majority allow of a definite opinion as to the nature of the lesion. As the