Elements of Surgery: For the Use of Students
Philadelphia: B. Warner, 1818. Second edition. Hardcover. Full brown leather; spine label has gilt lettering. 422 pp. with some bw illustrations. Poor(Front cover is missing. Back cover is faded throughout and marked with a black marker; spine shows loss of material and is peeling; spine label is peeling; hinges are split; first 25 or so pages appear to have been burnt off toward the hinge at the head end; some pages have been dog-eared; there is damp staining in parts and moderate foxing throughout the text block; age toning throughout, as expected. Text is clear and fully readable). Item #191269
THIS BOOK IS VOLUME 1 ONLY. "John Syng Dorsey is one of the unsung heroes of American surgery. In 1811 he performed this country's first successful ligation of the external iliac artery, for a massive aneurysm in the right groin. Two years later he wrote America's first systematic textbook of surgery. In addition, he held the professorial chairs of Materia Medica and Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania. All this was accomplished in a life that ended at 35 years. The memory of Dorsey is dimmed by the passage of time, but his bold and innovative approach to surgical problems is a stirring chapter in the history of American surgery. Through research with the use of primary archival and secondary source material in the form of previously unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and background information, a biographical sketch is presented." -- National Institutes of Health.
OCLC: 10976326
Price: $60.00