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Hernia - Surgery

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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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    Lectures on hernia and its radical cure : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in June, 1885 : with A clinical lecture on trusses and their application to ruptures, delivered at King's College Hospital / by John Wood.

    Wood, John. | Date: 1886
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    A treatise on hernia / by Antonio Scarpa, Professor of clinical surgery in the University of Pavia ; tr. from the Italian, with notes and an appendix, by John Henry Wishart.

    Scarpa, Antonio, 1752-1832. | Date: 1814
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    Surgical instruments for use on the abdomen in cases of dropsy and hernia, and for supporting humpback. Etching by J. Mynde, 1743, after L. Heister.

    Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758. | Date: [MDCCXLIII [1743]] | Reference: 2823185i
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    Inguinal hernia, with surgical instruments and trusses for treating it; with instruments for surgery of the penis in cases of phimosis and impervious glans; an incontinence bottle (fig. 7). Etching by F. Sesone, 1749, after L. Heister.

    Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758. | Date: [1749] | Reference: 2839947i
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