A general system of surgery, in three parts. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, Luxations, Tumors, and Ulcers, of all Kinds. II. Of the several operations performed on all Parts of the Body. III. Of the several bandages applied in all Operations and Disorders. The whole illustrated with forty copper-plates, exhibiting all the Operations, Instruments, Bandages, and Improvements, according to the Modern and most approved Practice. To which is prefixed, an introduction, Concerning the Nature, Origin, Progress, and Improvements of Surgery; With such other Preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the Younger Surgeons. Being a Work of Thirty Years Experience. By Dr. Laurence Heister, Professor of Physic and Surgery in the University of Helmstadt, Fellow of the Royal Society, London, and of the Royal Academy at Paris, &c.

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  • A general system of surgery, in three parts. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, Luxations, Tumors, and Ulcers, of all Kinds. II. Of the several operations performed on all Parts of the Body. III. Of the several bandages applied in all Operations and Disorders. The whole illustrated with forty copper-plates, exhibiting all the Operations, Instruments, Bandages, and Improvements, according to the Modern and most approved Practice. To which is prefixed, an introduction, Concerning the Nature, Origin, Progress, and Improvements of Surgery; With such other Preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the Younger Surgeons. Being a Work of Thirty Years Experience. By Dr. Laurence Heister, Professor of Physic and Surgery in the University of Helmstadt, Fellow of the Royal Society, London, and of the Royal Academy at Paris, &c.
  • Chirurgie. English
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Imprint
London: printed for J. Clarke, J. Whiston and B. White, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, and P. Davey and B. Law, MDCCLIX. [1759]
Publication year
1759-1759
ESTC No.
N18685
Grub Street ID
8153
Description
v.1 (xvi,456p.),XVIIIplates ; 4⁰
Note
Vol. 1 only.

Originally published in German in 1719, and subsequently published in Latin in 1739, with the title 'Institutiones chirurgicae'.