1842, ISBN: f791aa6de4f18b2af803eefceea7a888

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Used, good, [PU: London: John Churchill, 1842.], MEDICINE. MEDICAL. SURGERY. SURGICAL. GARRISON-MORTON. NOISBN, 4 leaves [ads.], xiii, 596 pp; 246 figs. Later plain cloth. Ink stamp ("97 … Plus…

Used, good, [PU: London: John Churchill, 1842.], MEDICINE. MEDICAL. SURGERY. SURGICAL. GARRISON-MORTON. NOISBN, 4 leaves [ads.], xiii, 596 pp; 246 figs. Later plain cloth. Ink stamp ("97 L") on verso of title page. Strip cut from blank bottom margin of one leaf(7/8). Signature of W. L Emmerdow (1845) on front flyleaf. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 5596. Fergusson "invented the term 'conservative surgery', by which he meant the excision of a joint rather than the amputation of a limb. He introduced great improvements in the treatment of hare-lip and cleft-palate, and his style of operating attracted general attention and admiration. As an operator, indeed, he is justly placed at the pinnacle of fame. Lizars said he had seen no one, not even Liston himself, surpass Fergusson in a trying and critical operation, and his biographer . says in the Dictionary of National Biography: 'His manipulative and mechanical skill was shown both in his mode of operating and in the new instruments which hedevised. The bulldog forceps, the mouth-gag, and various bent knives for cleft palate, attest his ingenuity. A still higher mark of his ability consisted in his perfect planning of every detail of an operation beforehand; no emergency was unprovided for. Thus, when an operation had begun, he proceeded with remarkable speed and silence till the end, himself applying every bandage and plaster, and leaving, as far as possible, no traces of his operation. So silently were most of his operations conducted, that he was often imagined to be on bad terms with his assistants'. He made many contributions to surgical literature, and wrote a System of Practical Surgery. The work deals with the art rather than the science of surgery." (Plarr, Plarr's Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England I: 398-99). Heirs of Hippocrates 1706 (Philadelphia: 1843 ed.).<

1842, ISBN: f791aa6de4f18b2af803eefceea7a888

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Used, good, [PU: London: John Churchill, 1842.], MEDICINE. MEDICAL. SURGERY. SURGICAL. GARRISON-MORTON. NOISBN, 4 leaves [ads.], xiii, 596 pp; 246 figs. Later plain cloth. Ink stamp ("97 … Plus…

Used, good, [PU: London: John Churchill, 1842.], MEDICINE. MEDICAL. SURGERY. SURGICAL. GARRISON-MORTON. NOISBN, 4 leaves [ads.], xiii, 596 pp; 246 figs. Later plain cloth. Ink stamp ("97 L") on verso of title page. Strip cut from blank bottom margin of one leaf(7/8). Signature of W. L Emmerdow (1845) on front flyleaf. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 5596. Fergusson "invented the term 'conservative surgery', by which he meant the excision of a joint rather than the amputation of a limb. He introduced great improvements in the treatment of hare-lip and cleft-palate, and his style of operating attracted general attention and admiration. As an operator, indeed, he is justly placed at the pinnacle of fame. Lizars said he had seen no one, not even Liston himself, surpass Fergusson in a trying and critical operation, and his biographer . says in the Dictionary of National Biography: 'His manipulative and mechanical skill was shown both in his mode of operating and in the new instruments which hedevised. The bulldog forceps, the mouth-gag, and various bent knives for cleft palate, attest his ingenuity. A still higher mark of his ability consisted in his perfect planning of every detail of an operation beforehand; no emergency was unprovided for. Thus, when an operation had begun, he proceeded with remarkable speed and silence till the end, himself applying every bandage and plaster, and leaving, as far as possible, no traces of his operation. So silently were most of his operations conducted, that he was often imagined to be on bad terms with his assistants'. He made many contributions to surgical literature, and wrote a System of Practical Surgery. The work deals with the art rather than the science of surgery." (Plarr, Plarr's Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England I: 398-99). Heirs of Hippocrates 1706 (Philadelphia: 1843 ed.).<