Elements of surgery : for the use of students : with plates / by John Syng Dorsey ... ; in two volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818, author, illustrator, engraver.

Contributor:

Exilious, John G., active 1810-1814, engraver.

Jones, W. R. (William R.), engraver.

Kneass, William, 1780-1840, engraver.

Tanner, Benjamin, 1775-1848, engraver.

Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872, illustrator.

Parker, Edward (Bookseller), publisher.

Brown, William, 1785-1853, printer.

Kimber & Conrad, publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surgery.

Penn Provenance:

Bower, John L. (John Lincoln), 1865-1955 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection AC8 D7386 813e)

Baltzer, R. M. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection AC8 D7386 813e)

Lurie, Dean K. (donor) (Kislak Center RD31 .D6 1813)

Cottrin, A. (autograph) (Kislak Center RD31 .D6 1813)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

Philadelphia : W. Brown, printer, Church Alley.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Published by Edward Parker, no 178, & Kimber & Conrad, no. 93, Market Street, 1813.

Summary:

"The first systematic treatise on surgery written by an American. The work is notable for containing not only Dorsey's original contributions, but also for the publication of the work of Dorsey's uncle and teacher, the pioneer American surgeon, Philip Syng Physick"--Garrison-Morton.

Notes:

Volume 1 has added engraved title leaf with vignette of Pennsylvania Hospital signed: J. Exilious, sc. Other engravings variously signed: J.S. Dorsey del. & sculp.; W.R. Jones sc.; engrav'd by W. Kneass; Tanner sc.; T. Sully.

Pagination: volume 1: vi, vii, [1], 407, [1] pages, [1], XV leaves of plates ; volume 2: [2], vii, [1], 388 pages, XVI-XXVI leaves of plates (plate XXII numbered XXI).

Seven of the plates were drawn or engraved by the author; plate XII is printed in red.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection AC8 D7386 813e has label of the Library of the Philadelphia Hospital. bookplate of John Lincoln Bower, M.D., and autograph of R.M. Baltzer. Top portion of preliminary page of volume 2 wanting.

Kislak Center RD31 .D6 1813 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Dean K. Lurie. Imperfect: volume 2 only. Dated 19th-century autograph ("A. Cottrin 1815") at head of title leaf.

Cited in:

Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 28351

National Library of Medicine (U.S.). Early American medical imprints, 678

OCLC:

1472509