A general system of surgery
Subtitle: 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.
By: The whole illustrated with thirty eight copper-plates, exhibiting all the operations, instruments, bandages, and improvements, according to the modern and most approved practice.  To which is prefixed an introd. 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.
Edition: The 4th ed. Translated into English from the Latin of Dr. Laurence Heister ...
Publisher: W. Innys [etc.]
Published: 1750
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
Subjects: Surgery -- Early works to 1800
Notes: Translation of Institutiones chirurgicae.

Includes bibliographical references.

Plate 14 wanting; p. 39-40 (3d group) and plate 10 mutilated.

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