A treatise on surgical diseases
Subtitle: and the operations suited to them
By: ... Translated from the French by Alexander H. Stevens ... With notes, and an appendix, by the translator ...
Contributors: Shoemaker, B. R.; Roper, Tom.; Stevens, Alexander H. 1789-1869.
Publisher: T. and J. Swords
Published: 1815
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Subjects: Surgery
Other titles: Boyer's surgery
Notes: Spine title: Boyer's surgery.

Slip with explanatory note tipped on to each plate in v. 2.

Based on the author's lectures, and "intended chiefly for students."  Cf. Author's pref.

Errata leaf at end of v. 1.

Translation of v. 1-4 of Traite  des maladies chirurgicales et des ope rations qui leur conviennent (Paris, 1814)  "The translation ... convey[s] the spirit rather than the letter of the author's writings ... and four volumes of the original are compressed into two." - Translator's pref.

Appendix (v. 1, p. [411]-414, with plate) consists largely of T. W. Roper's communication dated June 9, 1815, The history of a remarkable tumor; reprinted from the Medical repository, n. s., v. 3, p. 71-75.

Vol. 1: Bookplate: The property of James Cook. Presented by B.R. Shoemaker, M.D. Vol. 2 lacks front board.