With our busy schedules today everyone seems to be in a hurry with little time to retrieve information such as the day of the week of Christmas 2010 or the day of the week the first man landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. The 300 Year Calendar Book will solve these problems fast. Indeed, using this book one could very easily and quickly find any day of the week in the years between 1760 to 2060. Furthermore, if one remembers the constant number of any given month of any year one could determine the day of the week instantly by application of the Koay Calendar Formula. This is the intention of this book. It saves one's time, reduces one's frustration and helps to keep one's blood pressure normal. The authors' goal is to share this convenience with everyone. Over 150 years ago, Dumas stated well "one for all and all for one" in his book The Three Musketeers. The authors admire his philosophy.

The cases presented in this book were collected during my two year fellowship training in hand surgery at Cook County Hospital, Chicago and in private practice in Fairmont, West Virginia from 1969 through 2005. I was a hand fellow in Cook County Hospital from 1969 through 1971. Since 1971 I have been practicing general orthopedic and hand surgery in Fairmont, West Virginia. This book reflects my personal experience with these unusual patients. It has been a golden opportunity for me to serve them. Each case presented here is unique and not seen routinely in regular text books or medical journals. I consider these pictures to be priceless. Therefore, I compiled these cases into a book with color photographs. My wish is to share these impossible injuries with my colleagues, friends and patients. I hope all of my friends will appreciate and value them as I do. Most frostbite patients presented here were associated with ethanol intoxication.