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 : 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: by Dr. Laurence Heister ...
Edition: The seventh edition, translated from the author's last edition, greatly improved.
Publisher: Printed for J. Clarke, J. Whiston and B. White, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, and P. Davey and B. Law
Published: 1759
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Surgery; Early works to 1800; Operative Surgery; Surgical instruments and apparatus
Work titles: Chirurgie
Notes: Tail-pieces.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Presentation letter from George B. Wilbur to E. H. Bigelow, M.D., 1915 May 5, inserted at front. Autograph of Israel Thorndike Hunt, M.D., Dec. 14, 1870, on title-page.