Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1705

AUGUSTUS SIDNEY DOANE (1808-1852) Surgery illustrated. Harper & Brothers 1836 200 pp., 52 plates (front.). 25.7 cm.

After graduating from Harvard in 1828, Doane studied medicine in Paris for two years before returning to Boston. Soon thereafter Doane moved to New York where he developed a successful practice and was appointed professor of physiology at the University of New York in 1839. He left that position after a short time to serve as chief physician of the Marine Hospital until 1843 when he returned to private practice. Doane was a skilled editor and translator and is chiefly known for his translations of Maygrier, Baylis, Blandin, Ricord, Chausier, and Scoutetten. His chief aim in the present work was to make available, in one volume, a useful sourcebook on surgery from the best foreign sources. Doane stated that "In this work we make no pretensions to originality, thinking that the profession will be benefited more by a compilation of facts than by an original book of theory" (p. 4). In compiling the book he drew from Thomas Cutler's (1810-1879) The surgeon's practical guide in dressing and in the methodic application of bandages (London, 1834), George William Hind's (1802-1885) A series of twenty plates, illustrating the causes of displacement in the various fractures of the bones of the extremities (London, 1835), Velpeau's (see No. 1525) Nouveaux éléments de médecine opératoire (Paris, 1832), and Ernst Blasius' (1802-1875) Erklarung der Akiurgischen Abbildungen (Berlin, 1833).

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