A dictionary of practical surgery : comprehending all the most interesting improvements ... an account of the instruments ... the etymology and signification of the principal terms ... / by Samuel Cooper ; with numerous notes and additions ... together with a supplementary index ... by David Meredith Reese.

  • Samuel Cooper
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1844
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Credit: A dictionary of practical surgery : comprehending all the most interesting improvements ... an account of the instruments ... the etymology and signification of the principal terms ... / by Samuel Cooper ; with numerous notes and additions ... together with a supplementary index ... by David Meredith Reese. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE SIXTH LONDON EDITION. The utility of this Dictionary to students and all classes of medical praW tioners,L obtained for it in tins country a larger share cf W^ perhaps ever conferred upon any other book of surgery; while xts translaUo . mto the French, German; Italian, and Russian languages, and several repubh Stlns of itin imerica, may be taken as proofs ^^^^ considerable notice in various other parts of the world At Mdan one^transla tion of it was produced a few years ago; and I learn from afetter ^m* wh«* I have lately been honoured by Dr. Crescimbmi, president of the Medico- C^J^SJ^f of Bologna, that he is preparing another Italian trandatxon. nito which he proposes to introduce additional subjects, and such. — a are founded upon his own researches and experience. ^ lightened Germans were not only the first to undertake and completa^transla tion; they have bestowed still greater attention upon my humble endeavourto promote the cultivation and diffusion of surgical science; for they have fol CTd up their translation by a series of well-execut^ ^^^ designed to illustrate the nature of the diseases, accidental injuries and curative methods, treated of in this Dictionary—(See Chirurgtscle Kupfertafeln, Uo. WeZZ] 1820-1829.) Of these valuable plates, the publication of which I YegZZ an honourable compliment to my ^^^J^^ have already been brought out at an extremely moderate price ; and it is with relics Je that I recommend them to the notice of every surgeon who is a German Scholar, as being the most useful collection of surgical and pathological ^^^eZr^l enriched with an account of a? the latest improvements in surgery, I have conscientiously endeavoured to deal fairly and impartiaUy with every individual whose name I have had occasion to mention, or Xe sulrstions fo7m subjects of consideration in the ensuing pages. My aim hTbee/truth, wherever I could find her; and in every situation where any ghmpseofher beautiful figure presented itself, I have ardent7 courted her re- f aXs of the name, school, or country on which she might deign to shed her gW By steadily adhering to this principle; by jealously marking whaUhe book of nature and the field of experience unfolded; by renouncing all obse- qlus submission to every other kind of authority; and by takmg^lA^of sometimes thinking and judging for myself; I trust that the most likely plan has IZZpToi mlmtaininithe character of this book, and raismg my own h^rgtmy usual plan, I subjoin the notice ofafew either inadvertently omitted in the articles to which they relate, or commum- cated to me after such articles had been printed. [The several additions which follow in Mr. Cooper's preface, for the greater convenience of the student have been inserted in the body of the Dictionary, under the respective articles to which they refer. They wdl be found desig- nated by the abbreviation Pref. affixed to the termination oi each.]
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