Chirurgorum comes; or, The whole practice of chirurgery
By: begun by the learned Dr. Read, continued and completed by a member of the College of Physicians in London ; licensed, Feb. 15. 1686/7
Contributors: Fidele, Fortunato, 1550-1630; Groeneveld, Joannes, 1647-1710?; Tagliacozzi, Gaspare, 1545-1599; Jones, Edward, -1706, printer; Wilkinson, Christopher, active 1669-1693, bookseller
Publisher: Printed by Edw. Jones for Christopher Wilkinson, at the Black Boy in Fleetstreet over against St. Dunstans Church
Published: 1687
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 714
Subjects: Surgery; Early works to 1800; Study and teaching; Medicine; Sexually transmitted diseases; Embalming; Surgical diseases
Other titles: Whole practice of chirurgery
Notes: Pagination error: p. 673-682 not printed.

"An appendix concerning chirurgeon-reports before a magistrate, upon their view of a wounded person": p. 415-473, is a summary of Fortunato Fidele's De relationibus medicorum, published in Palermo in 1602.

"Chapt. XLII. Of lithotomy, or cutting for the stone": p. 626-643, is a translation of Joannes Groeneveld's Dissertatio lithologica, published in London in 1684 and 1687.

"The practice of chirurgery.  Part IV.  Book VIII.  Of supplying defects in the body": p. 645-704, is a summary of Book 2 of Gaspare Tagliacozzi's De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, first published in Venice in 1597.

Health Sciences Library holds three copies: all from the Jerome P. Webster Library of Plastic Surgery.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), R217760

In English with Latin references.