The operations in surgery ... / of Mons. Le Dran ... Translated by Mr. Gataker, surgeon. With remarks, plates of the operations, and a sett of instruments, by Mr. W. Cheselden.

  • Le Dran, Henry-François, 1685-1770.
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]
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Credit: The operations in surgery ... / of Mons. Le Dran ... Translated by Mr. Gataker, surgeon. With remarks, plates of the operations, and a sett of instruments, by Mr. W. Cheselden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •Y KilJ ],tl.{ 1.■ nM 7*^ PREFACE. The practice of Surgery in ’England has of late years received fuch great improvements, that to offer the pub-, lie the fentiments of a foreign writer upon this fubjed:, may feem perhaps at prefent un- neceffary. This Confideration at leafl would in general have fuppreffed any fuch inten- tion in me ; but the great commendations which have been given to the following treatife in the original, will, I imagine, recommend a tranflation of it. In the exe- cution of this undertaking, I have endea- voured chiefly to be exad and faithful to the original, not only in juftice to the au- thor, but in refped to any connedion which particular parts might have wdth Mr.