New elements of operative surgery / by Alf. A.L.M. Velpeau, carefully revised, entirely remodelled, and augmented with a treatise on minor surgery ; illustrated by over 300 engravings, incorporated with the text, accompanied with an atlas in quarto of twenty-two plates, representing the principal operative processes, surgical instruments ; translated by P.S. Townsend. Augmented by the addition of several hundred pages of entirely new matter, comprising all the latest improvements and discoveries in surgery, in America and Europe, up to the present time. Under the supervision of, and with notes and observations by Valentine Moth.

  • Velpeau, A. (Alfred), 1795-1867.
Date:
1845-1847
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Credit: New elements of operative surgery / by Alf. A.L.M. Velpeau, carefully revised, entirely remodelled, and augmented with a treatise on minor surgery ; illustrated by over 300 engravings, incorporated with the text, accompanied with an atlas in quarto of twenty-two plates, representing the principal operative processes, surgical instruments ; translated by P.S. Townsend. Augmented by the addition of several hundred pages of entirely new matter, comprising all the latest improvements and discoveries in surgery, in America and Europe, up to the present time. Under the supervision of, and with notes and observations by Valentine Moth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on both sides of the Atlantic. It would have been unfortunate, too, that an experience so extensive as yours, during a practice of forty years, and that the reflections of the most celebrated and distin- guished surgeon of America, should have been nowhere found em- bodied together in the same work. I was already in part acquainted with what you say of Dr. Town- send : he has a reputation which was not unknown to me. I have read many articles from his pen, and I had already formed to my- self a high opinion of his talent. I am therefore much gratified that he has undertaken the task, as you so well express it, of in- vesting me in an Anglo-American dress. As to the changes, corrections, and additions, which you speak of, and which it might be advisable to introduce into the work while it is in the press, I have been seriously occupied with them, and it is on this account that I have not sooner replied to your kind letter of the 24th of May last. The corrections in relation to certain names of authors, and cer- tain dates, must necessarily be numerous in a work of this de- scription, so numerous, in fact, that I have not the courage to point them out. I flatter myself, moreover, with the hope that Dr. Town- send will rectify the greater portion of them. Thus, in the paragraph at page 31, of the Appendix of the first volume, M.Fearn should be substituted in the place of M. Morrisson, while the numbers at the quotations at the foot of the page are for the most part misplaced as to their figures or in the titles of the journals. At page 33 of the same Appendix, No. 4, and not No. 5, must be pla- ced after the name of M. Gagnebe. Especially is it desirable not to omit to correct in volume IV.* pp. 228 and 229, [French text,] the phrase relative to M. Parcet y Venuales, which must be inserted in place of Purcel; moreover, that it was in 1807 and not in 1788 that the work of this physician was published. I have thought, moreover, that in order to enable you to select from my labors what may appear to you to be of value, I could not do better than to send you some copies of the notice recently published for my candidateship to the Institute. You will see in this notice what I have published since 1838, and consequently such as I could not avail myself of for the last edition of my work. The Dictionnaire de Medecine, or Repertoire des Sciences Medi- cales, commonly known under the name of the Dictionnaire de Bechet, comprises the greater part of the articles enumerated near * Vol. III. of this translation, not yet published.— V. M.