Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1079
BENJAMIN BELL (1749-1806) A system of surgery. Printed for C. Elliot 1783-1788 99 plates. 21.3 cm.
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A system of surgery was produced while Bell was on the staff of the Royal Infirmary and is his most famous work. The clarity and precision with which it was written provided a model for later nineteenth-century surgical works.
Cited references: Garrison-Morton 5579; Waller 844; Wellcome II, p. 134
Gift of John Martin, M.D.
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