The compleat surgeon : or, the whole art of surgery explain'd in a most familiar method. Containing the principles of that art; and, an exact account of tumours, ulcers, and wounds, simple and complicated, with those by Gun-Shot: As also of Venereal Diseases, the Scurvy, Fractures, and Luxations: with all sorts of chirurgical operations; the bandages and dressings, which are illustrated in forty copper plates; the Method of diffecting the Brain, by M. Duncan; several Reflections and New Machines by M. Arnaud. Likewise, a Chirurgical Dispensatory; shewing the Manner of preparing all such Medicines as are most necessary for a Surgeon; and particularly the Mercurial Panacca. Written in French, by M. Le Clerc, Physician in Ordinary to the late French King. The sixth edition. To which are added, the method of midwifery; of preparing the unguentum matris, and the unguentum styracis; a short introduction to botany; and some examples of reports in surgery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel, 1644-1700?.

Standardized Title:

Chirurgie complette. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surgery--Early works to 1800.

Surgery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([20],392[8],93,[3]p.,[48] plates )

Other Title:

Compleat surgeon

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, J. and J. Bonwicke, and T. Ward, MDCCXXVII. [1727]

Notes:

'A description of bandages and dressings' has separate pagination, register, and titlepage with imprint: London: printed for J. and J. Bonwicke and R. Wilkin, J. Walthoe and T. Ward, 1727.

The plates are numbered 1-47 and "Ye last".

With three final advertisement pages.

Reproduction of original from Countway Library of Medicine.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N4929.

OCLC:

642210059