Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1078

BENJAMIN BELL (1749-1806) A treatise on the theory and management of ulcers. Printed for C. Elliot 1789 486 pp. 20.5 cm.

Bell was a prominent and successful surgeon in Edinburgh, where he studied under the famous Alexander Monro secundus (see No. 1010). One of the first surgeons to emphasize the importance of preventing or diminishing pain during surgery, he introduced a number of improvements in amputation technique. This treatise on the classification and treatment of ulcers was first published in 1778 and is considered one of the classics of eighteenth-century physiology.

See Related Record(s): 1010

Cited references: Cushing B254 (Boston, 1791 ed.); Garrison-Morton 5578 (1st ed., 1778); Waller 846 (1st ed.); Wellcome II, p. 134 (1st ed.)