Principles and Practice of Surgery is the surgical companion textbook to the international medical bestseller Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine which is widely used across the Indian sub-continent, Africa and the Middle East It is a comprehensive textbook for the surgical student, guiding the reader through key core surgical topics which are encountered throughout the medical curriculum as well as in subsequent clinical practice. Although sharing the same format and style as Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine, this text is complete in itself, thus enabling the student to appreciate both the medical and surgical implications of diseases encountered in surgical wards