A treatise on the operations of surgery : with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them: to which is prefix'd an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers.

  • Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778.
Date:
1740
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the operations of surgery : with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them: to which is prefix'd an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. S the Methods of operating in Surgery have of late Years been exceedingly improved in England, and there is no Trea- tife of Character on that Subject written in our Language, I believe there is no great occafion to apologize for this Un¬ dertaking: It is true we have a few Tranllations from the Writings of Fo¬ reigners, but belides the great Difad- vantage they lie under from their Ig¬ norance of thefe Improvements, their manner of defcribing an Operation is fo very minute, and in general fo little pleafingj that could nothing new be added, or nothing falfe be exploded, A 3 the