The History of Surgery in the United States, 1775-1900: Textbooks, monographs, and treaties

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Norman Publishing, 1988 - Medical - 514 pages
Volume one is an annotated bibliography of all textbooks, monographs, and treatises written by American surgeons and published in the united States before 1900. The chapters include separate bibliographies for general surgery, ophthalmology, oto-rino-laryngology, orthopaedic surgery, gynaecology, urology, colon-rectal surgery, and neurological surgery.
 

Contents

The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus
3
Hippocrates Fifth to Fourth Century B C
14
Celsus and the Alexandrians
28
Galen of Pergamum 129199 A D
39
Sushruta
55
Surgery of the Orient China and Japan
68
Paul of Aegina Seventh Century A D
74
Albucasis Eleventh Century and the Surgery of the Arabic
81
William Cheselden 16881752
296
Lorenz Heister 16831758
313
Percivall Pott 17141789
324
John Hunter 17281793
338
PierreJoseph Desault 17441795 and French Surgery
359
DominiqueJean Larrey 17661842
372
Antonio Scarpa 17521832
386
Astley Cooper 17681843
394

Salernitan Surgery
93
Guy de Chauliac d 1368
149
John of Arderne 13061390?
158
Antonio Benivieni 14431502
164
Paracelsus 14931541
171
Ambroise Paré 15101590
179
Pierre Franco 1500?1561
193
Heinrich von Pfolspeundt Hier
203
Caspar Stromayr Sixteenth Century
218
Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente 15331620
230
William Clowes 15401604
271
Peter Lowe 15501612
280
Richard Wiseman 1621?1676
288
The Bells of Scotland
408
Baron Guillaume Dupuytren 17771835
424
Marion Sims and Early American Surgery
436
Lord Lister 18271912
461
Edoardo Bassini 18441924 and the Surgery for Hernia
479
Theodor Billroth 18291894 and the Rise of Abdominal
488
Theodor Kocher 18411917 and the Surgery of the Endo
499
Sir Victor Horsley and Modern Neurosurgery
519
Ferdinand Sauerbruch and the Explosive Expansion
536
Bibliography
548
Index
561
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