Surgery - Early works to 1800
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Observations in Surgery Containing one hundred and fifteen different cases with particular remarks on each, for the improvement of young students. Written originally in French, by Henry-Francis Le Dran, of the academy of arts, sworn surgeon at Paris, senior master of that company, else surgeon and demonstrator of Anatomy at the hospital La Charité. Translated by J. S. Surgeon. Embellish'd with copper plates curiously engrav'd representing those parts wherein the principal cases are particularly concern'd. To which is added, a new chirurgical dictionary, for the use of young practioners, and Gentlemen refiding in the country; explaining the terms of art contained in the body of the book, and likewise all such as properly belong to physick and surgery.
Le Dran, Henri-François, 1685-1770.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- E-books
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Principles of surgery , for the use of chirurgical students. Part the first. By John Pearson, Surgeon To the Lock Hospital, and to the Public Dispensary.
Pearson, John, 1758-1826.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- E-books
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A treatise of the operations of surgery . Wherein are mechanically explain'd the causes of the diseases in which they are needful, grounded on the structure of the part; their signs and symptoms. Also many new remarks after each operation. To which is added, a treatise of wounds, and their proper and methodical dressings. Enlarg'd with an account of the bandages, and other apparatus necessary in each operation. Translated from the third edition of the French, enlarg'd, corrected and revis'd by the author, Joseph de la Charriere.
La Charrière, Joseph de, d. 1690.Date: MDCCXII. [1712]- E-books
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A collection of tracts, chirugical and medical viz.I. A new light of chirurgery; or a discovery of a more safe and speedy way of curing Wounds than heretofore usually practised, with several Experiments. II. The new Light of Chirurgery vindicated from the unjust Aspersions of several unknown Calumniators, &c. III. A Physico-Medical Essay concerning Alkaly and Acid, as they relate to the Cause and Cure of Distempers; with an Account of some Distempers, and the Medicines for the Cure of them: Also a short Digression about Specific Remedies. IV. Further Considerations concerning Alkaly and Acid, wherein the Terms and Nature of them are more fully explained, &c. V. A Treatise of the Gout, wherein both its Cause and Cure are demonstrated; with some Medicinal Observations concerning the Cure of Fevers, &c. by the means of Acids; with an Account of Experiments, and the Medicines, with their Preparations. VI. The Doctrine of Acids in the Cure of Diseases further asserted, in Answer to Dr. Tuthill; wherein are some things relating to the History of Blood, &c. Vii. A relation of a sudden and extraordinary cure of a person bitten by a viper, by the means of Acids, &c. The second edition corrected. By John Colbatch, A Member of the College of Physicians. With an alphabetical table to the whole.
Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729.Date: 1704- E-books
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The art of surgery In which is laid down such a general idea of the same, as is founded upon reason, confirm'd by practice, and farther illustrated with many singular and rare cases medico-chirurgical. In two volumes. The third edition. Corrected. By Daniel Turner, M.D. of the College of Physicians in London.
Turner, Daniel, 1667-1741.Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]