Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1300

SIR CHARLES BELL (1774-1842) A system of operative surgery, founded on the basis of anatomy. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme 1807-1809 Vol. I: xxxii, 448 pp., illus., 14 plates; Vol. II: xxiv, 385 pp., illus., 7 plates. 22.9 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1294

This work is a treatise on general surgery, largely from the anatomical point of view. The author was as much artist as anatomist and surgeon; typically, the book is illustrated by Bell himself, with twenty-one plates and ninety-three text figures.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 5583; Waller 851; Wellcome II, p. 136

Gift of John Martin, M.D.