Cope's early diagnosis of the acute abdomen.

About this book

This famous text is much beloved by medical students and physicians-in-training throughout the English-speaking world, as its many editions indicate. It is full of the pearls of clinical wisdom that students and practitioners treasure. The book is widely regarded as "the single best short treatise on acute abdominal pain," to quote one reviewer, and with each edition its wise guidance to dealing with an urgent clinical situation is updated and further honed.