A general system of surgery, [electronic resource] : in three parts. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, Luxations, Tumors, and Ulcers, of all Kinds. II. Of the several operations performed on all Parts of the Body. III. Of the several bandages applied in all Operations and Disorders. To which is prefixed, an introduction, Concerning the Nature, Origin, Progress, and Improvements of Surgery; With such other Preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the Younger Surgeons. Being a Work of Thirty Years Experience. Illustrated with forty copper-plates, exhibiting all the Operations, Instruments, Bandages, and Improvements, according to the Modern and most approved Practice. By Dr. Laurence Heister, Professor of Physic and Surgery in the University of Helmstadt, Fellow of the Royal Society, London, and of the Royal Academy at Paris, &c. Translated from the author's last edition, greatly improved.
1768
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A general system of surgery, [electronic resource] : in three parts. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, Luxations, Tumors, and Ulcers, of all Kinds. II. Of the several operations performed on all Parts of the Body. III. Of the several bandages applied in all Operations and Disorders. To which is prefixed, an introduction, Concerning the Nature, Origin, Progress, and Improvements of Surgery; With such other Preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the Younger Surgeons. Being a Work of Thirty Years Experience. Illustrated with forty copper-plates, exhibiting all the Operations, Instruments, Bandages, and Improvements, according to the Modern and most approved Practice. By Dr. Laurence Heister, Professor of Physic and Surgery in the University of Helmstadt, Fellow of the Royal Society, London, and of the Royal Academy at Paris, &c. Translated from the author's last edition, greatly improved.
Author
Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758.
Uniform Title
Chirurgie. English
Edition
The eighth edition, revised and corrected.
Publication Details
London : printed for J. Whiston, L. Davis and C. Reymers, B. White, H. Woodfall, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, T. Lowndes, L. Hawes and Co. T. Caslon, Z. Stuart, W. Law, W. Kearsley, MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Language
English
Description
2v.,40 plates ; 4⁰.
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Originally published in German in 1719, and subsequently published in Latin in 1739, with the title 'Institutiones chirurgicae'.
Reproduction of original from Countway Library of Medicine.
Reproduction of original from Countway Library of Medicine.
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English Short Title Catalog, N2406.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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