provides the essentials of the vast subject of veterinary surgery in a nutshell. Facts that you gather from a dozen textbooks and reference books on the subject have been arranged for rapid and easy reference in convenient chapters.
The book covers all basic and essential informations on General Surgery, Regional Surgery, and Operative Surgery needed for the BVSC and AH students and practising veterinary surgeons. Stressing on fundamentals which gives the reader necessary foundation for a species wise specialisation, this book excels in its approach which is basic and systematic. Technical details of all common operations seen in practice with notes on surgical anatomy are presented. A small chapter on dentition and ageing of different species is given.Appendices include specimens of soundness certificate for horse and wound certificate. The subjective-type questions provided at the end of each chapter enables student to consolidate his memory after reading through the concerned chapter.A few models of objective-type questions with their answers are also given at the end of the book, to make it more examination-oriented.Essentials of Veterinary Surgery is a textbook for veterinary students and a ready- reference book for practising veterinary surgeons. Postgraduate students have found it useful to refresh their memory and to make a quick review of the subject.
Ayillath Venugopalan Nambiar, Formerly Professor, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Kerala Agricultural University, Mannuthy, Kerala, was teaching veterinary surgery for more than two decades. He graduated from the Madras Veterinary College in 1952 and qualified for his Master's degree in Veterinary Surgery from Kansas State University (USA) in 1962. Dr. Venugopalan joined the Madras State Service as a Veterinary Surgeon in 1952 when it comprised the present state of Tamil Nadu, parts of Andhra Pradesh, and parts of Kerala. He had vast professional experience and is familiar with the field problems encountered in India. He worked as Lecturer in Veterinary Surgery in the Veterinary College, Mannuthy, from July 1958 and was later appointed as Professor of Surgery in 1964; from 1978 onwards he was also functioning as the Professor (Research Coordination) of the Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Kerala Agricultural University.
