1768 SYSTEM of SURGERY 2 vol by HEISTER 38 anatomical engravings ENGLISH antique

3 parts in 2 volumes
A General System of Surgery, 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.
To which is prefixed, an Introduction, Concerning the Nature, Origin, Progress, and Improvements of Surgery, with such other Preliminarties as are necessary to be known by the Younger Surgeons. Being a Work of Thirty Years Experience.
Illustrated with Forty Copper-Plates, exhibiting all Operations, Inbstruments, Bandages, and Immprovements, according to the Modern and most approved Practice.
By 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.
Translated from the Author´s last Edition, greatly improved.
The Eighth Edition, Revised and Corrected.
London, 1768.
Size: 8 by 10"
Binding is in poor condition: covers are worn and detached, spines are destroyed.
Good interior, some foxing, minor spots and fixed tears.
Total 38 plates (out of 40, 2 plates are missing)
Text in English

Lorenz Heister (Latin: Laurentius Heister) (19 September 1683 – 18 April 1758) was a German anatomist, surgeon and botanist born in Frankfurt am Main.

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