Whether they like it or not, surgeons today must taste and digest a smorgasbord of scientific data about their patients, data derived from an ever-widening variety of instruments designed to supplement the information already available to us through the five senses. While most surgeons, with understandable frustration, react to this mass of facts as often irrelevant and unnecessary to proper patient care, still our scientific curiosity is titillated by the promise of new machinery and of new avenues to reach old goals. This volume represents a symposium sponsored by the Royal College of Surgeons (England) and designed to make surgeons more comfortable with the measurements and procedures infiltrating into the wards and operating suites. The papers, largely the work of non-surgeons, present various topics in abbreviated technical language which will provoke the interested reader to further study but will leave the casual browser annoyed with his own ignorance. We can
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John H. Wulsin (1969) studied this question.