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. 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 Dr. Laurence Heister

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