A general system of surgery. : In three parts. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, Luxations, Tumours, 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. The whole illustrated with thirty eight copper-plates, exhibiting all the Operations, Instruments, Bandages, and Improvements, according to the Modern and most approved Practice. 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. Translated into English from the Latin of 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Chirurgie. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surgery--Early works to 1800.

Surgery.

Physical Description:

2v.,38 plates : portrait ; 4⁰

Edition:

The fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson in Pater-Noster Row; C. Davis in Holborn; J. Clark under the Royal-Exchange; R. Manby on Ludgate-Hill; J. Whiston and B. White in Fleet-Street; and H. S. Cox in Pater-Noster Row, MDCCLIII. [1753]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Originally published in German in 1719, and subsequently published in Latin in 1739, with the title 'Institutiones chirurgicae'.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Countway Library of Medicine.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N2403.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.