Book Review General Surgery: A Presentation of the Scientific Principles upon which the Practice of Modern Surgery is Based . By Ehrich Lexer, M.D., Professor of Surgery, University of Königsberg. American edition edited by Arthur Dean Bevan, M.D., Professor anel Head of the Department of Surgery, Rush Medical College, in affiliation with the University of Chicago. Authorized translation of the second German edition by Dean Lewis, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery, Rush Medical College. With 449 illustrations in the text, partly in color, and 2 colored plates. New York and London: D. Appleton & Co. 1908.