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1787 System of SURGERY Benjamin Bell Scottish Medicine
1787 System of SURGERY Benjamin Bell Scottish Medicine
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1787 System of SURGERY Benjamin Bell Scottish Medicine OPIUM Illustrated Elliot 4v



Benjamin Bell was an 18th-century Scottish surgeon, often considered to be the most important surgeon from Scotland. He published ‘System of Surgery’ – an English handbook designed to teach surgery and various aspects of pain relief. Controversially, Bell was an advocate for the use of opium as a means of pain management.



According to Garrison-Morton,

“Bell improved the methods of amputation, introducing the ‘triple incision of Bell… [System of Surgery] is his best work”.



This 1787 edition features impressive, full-page engravings of patients, surgical tools, operations and procedures, and much more!



Item number: #15984

Price: $950



BELL, Benjamin



A system of surgery. Extracted from the works of Benjamin Bell, of Edinburgh: by Nicholas B. Waters, M.D. Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and one of the physicians and surgeons to the Philadelphia Dispensary. Illustrated with notes and copperplates.



Edinburgh : Printed for Charles Elliot, 1787.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages; 4 volumes (of 6)

Vol. 1 – xvi, 568

11 engraved plates

Vol. 3 – 540, [4]

14 engraved plates

Vol. 4 – vi, 422, [2]

28 engraved plates

Vol. 6 – xii, 529, [3]

30 engraved plates

References: Evans 23170; Garrison-Morton 5579

Provenance: Stamp – G. N. Phillips

Language: English

Binding: Leather

Visible repair at inner hinges

Vol. 4 – Visible water damage in places

Size: ~8.5in X 5.5in (21.5cm x 14cm)



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