Following a long survey of human anatomy, there are instructions for the breast feeding of infants, directions for handling, dressing, feeding, and exercising children as well as specific treatment for diseases common to young children. Most of the...
The surgical techniques herein described are surprisingly modern. The illustrations, drawn by the author, are mostly colored and are exceptionally graphic and instructive.
The present work is Croce's major contribution and is chiefly a historical compilation of the writings of the important authorities from Hippocrates to Abulcasis. Croce's recommendations for wound management are surprisingly modern and are similar...
The present work is one of the earliest works on the treatment of gunshot wounds following that by Paré. The first part of the book deals with the treatment of gunshot wounds and covers such complications as infection, compound fractures, imbedded...
By Hans von Gersdorff. Cf. Dedication. The book contains many woodcuts, attributed to Hans Wechtlin (b. ca. 1480), which depict anatomy, surgical operations, and surgical instruments and devices. Herrlinger comments that "The illustrations . . ....
Kelly made pioneering contributions in such areas as the use of cocaine as a local anesthetic in the treatment of uterine displacement, ureter catheterization, the diagnosis of ureteral calculi, the treatment of vesicovaginal fistula, and a host of...
The initial sections on wound dressings in this early edition of Ketham's surgical work are nearly identical with the corresponding sections in the Fasciculus medicine. There is also a section containing recipes for various medications and a final...
1st edition. Collection of images engraved by Daniel Chodowiecki and others, taken from Essai sur la physiognomonie by Johann Caspar Lavater [1781]-1803
The work contains accounts of surgical instruments, methods of bandaging and splinting, numerous operative procedures (including amputation of the breast), obstetrical delivery by forceps, and one hundred of his case reports.
The first good medical textbook of its kind in English, chiefly written for young sea surgeons. The instruments and medicines for a surgeon’s chest, with their uses, are clearly described, followed by sections on acute surgical problems,...
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