Each chapter in this new edition has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date. A new chapter on "Accident and Emergency Surgery" has been added. Although the latest methods for investigating and treating surgical disease are included, "Bailey and Love" provides guidelines on safe and sound techniques of surgical handicraft that can be applied anywhere in the world. The startling advances in treatment achieved by invasive radiological methods are described for each organ. New illustrations replace old ones. The book first presents the essential principles of surgery and then organ-related chapters display the whole range of modern surgery. Specialist contributors have again supplied balanced and authoritative surveys of the latest techniques. "Bailey and Love" continues to provide the essential facts that senior students and trainee surgeons must acquire if they are to achieve acceptable standards in their examinations.