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Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758

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  • A general system of surgery 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. Translated into English from the Latin / of Laurence Heister.
  • The penis, after Ruysch, Heister, Morgagni, and Graaf. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English. From the Latin.
  • A surgeon performing a lithotomy on a patient who is being restrained by three assistants, with five other anatomical illustrations. Engraving by F. Sesoni, 1749, after L. Heister.
  • Chirurgie, in welcher alles, was zur Wund-Artzney gehöret, nach der neuesten und besten Art, gründlich abgehandelt, und in vielen Kuppffer-Tafeln die neu-erfundene und dienlichste Instrumente, nebst den bequemsten Handgriffen der chirurgischen Operationen und Bandagen deutlich vorgestellet werden / [Lorenz Heister].
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    Dissertatio medica inauguralis de medico naturae domino / [Johann Theophilus Hugo Rochlitz].

    Rochlitz, Johann Theophilus Hugo. | Date: [1730]
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    Breast cancer: the tenaculum of Helvetius and another surgical instrument for mastectomy. Etching by F. Sesone, 1749, after L. Heister.

    Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758. | Date: [1749] | Reference: 2830097i
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    Medical, chirurgical and anatomical cases and observations / Translated from the German original by George Wirgman [With preface by P. Shaw and introduction by D. Cox].

    Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758 | Date: 1755
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    Two kinds of fistula in the anus (Fig. 1, top left); instruments for surgery of fistula in ano. Etching by J. Mynde, 1743, after L. Heister.

    Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758. | Date: [MDCCXLIII [1743]] | Reference: 2823236i
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    Inguinal hernia, with surgical instruments and trusses for treating it. Etching by J. Mynde, 1743, after L. Heister.

    Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758. | Date: [MDCCXLIII [1743]] | Reference: 2823188i
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