A general system of surgery in three parts
Subtitle: Containing the doctrine and management, I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, 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 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 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: translated into English from the Latin of 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
Contributors: Mynde, J.
Publisher: Printed for W. Innys at the West-End os St. Paul's ... [and four others]
Published: 1743
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
Other titles: Institutiones chirurgicae.; Institutions of surgery.
Notes: Caption-titles of parts: Institutions of surgery.

Translation of: Chirurgie, originally published in German, Nuremberg 1719, then in Latin in Amsterdam in 1739 under title: Institutiones chirurgicae. Cf. ESTC. English translation first published 1743; also published under title: Institutions of surgery. Cf. LC.

Most plates in v. II signed: J. Mynde sc.

Two volumes in one, as issued? Paged and signed separately, with continuous plate numbers, and parts unevenly divided: Part I, Of the five kinds of disorders of the body: v. I, p. 25-[272]. Part II, Of operations: sec. I-II, v. I, p. 273-476; sec. III-VI, v. II, p. 1-291. Part III, Of bandages: v. II, p. 292-338.

With anonymous translator's and author's prefaces, the latter dated Jan. 10, 1739 and including autobiographical details.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ESTC T114640