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.
- Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau
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- 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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![APPENDIX. Xlv'li at variance with that of Professor Gibson. In the first place, says Dr. Mott, not less than six sevenths of the whole population of New York is of native-born citizens, and the whole amount of all our population so far exceeds that of Philadelphia, that a compari- son cannot justly be made between those cities as to the class of diseases prevalent in either. In the next place, there is no greater frequency of aneurisms or other surgical cases at New York than are naturally derivable from the fact, that as the great emporium of commerce, our city presents a far greater proportion of hard- working laborious population, directly connected with commercial pursuits, than her excess of inhabitants over the population of any other city would seem to denote. Aneurisms, therefore, and espe- cially every kind of casualty, or injury, or accident purely surgical, are natural casualties among a vast industrial people engaged in those arts and mechanical labors, whether on shipboard or on land, that pertain to a highly commercial and enterprising mart and em- porium so considerable as our own. Few surgeons, perhaps, of the present day, or of the past century, have treated so many cases of aneurism as Dr. Mott, and his experience goes directly to estab- lish the fact, that of all that number, and of all that he has seen in this city in a practice of near forty years, the great majority, if not all, were our own countrymen. He does not recall a solitary case of a foreigner, and nearly all belonged to that class who had been habituated, as might naturally be supposed, to severe mechanical labor. Nor could such cases, notwithstanding the fact that our city, out of 350,000 souls, (including the cities and towns imme- diately adjacent to it,) contains, besides some 15,000 negroes, a population of perhaps some 50,000 to 60,000 foreigners, be confined to natives of England, for at least 30,000 of our foreign population are Irish; and of the rest, the total of Scotch, Germans, French, Spanish, Italians, Swedes, &c, exceed by double the number those from England.—T.] §111. Spain, that we think so poor in a surgical point of view, is less so, perhaps, in reality than in appearance. MM. Argumosa, S. de Toca, Hysern, all three professors in the school of Madrid, are dis- tinguished there as anatomists and as surgeons. M. Hysern him- self has communicated to me an infinite number of facts. In Feb- ruary, 1829, he performed, at the general hospital at Barcelona, the partial amputation of both feet at the tarso-metatarsal articulations, on a child of ten years, in a case of gangrene from cold, which had extended to near one half the metatarsus. This gangrene was already limited by a regular inflammation. The success was com- plete. [It is not, perhaps, extraordinary, that M. Hysern, living in the semi-tropical atmosphere of Madrid, should advert to a disease like that of gangrene from cold, which must necessarily be a rare occur- rence in so mild a climate as that part of Spain. Dr. Mott remarks](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21036767_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
