Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1509

ROBERT LISTON (1794-1847) Practical surgery. Adam Waldie 1838 vi, 374 [1] pp., illus. 22 cm.

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Liston's purpose in preparing the present book was "to produce a work which should be useful to the students of surgery and young practitioners,--a plain common-sense view of the most important injuries and diseases which are met with in practice, unencumbered by speculations, or theories, and accompanied by simple directions how to conduct the treatment" (Preface, p. [v]). This first American edition has been edited by George Washington Norris (1808-1875), professor of clinical surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3328 (1st London ed., 1837); Wellcome III, p. 530 (1st London ed.)