Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 797

LORENZ HEISTER (1683-1758) A general system of surgery in three parts. W. Innys 1743 1st English ed. Vol. I: xvi, 476 pp.; Vol. II: 338 [10] pp., 38 fold. plates. 24.8 cm.

Heister, a German surgeon as well as an excellent anatomist, published his Chirurgie in 1718. It was the standard work on surgery in the eighteenth century, becoming one of the most translated, most used, and most respected texts ever written, and was still used as a standard text at Vienna as late as 1838. Heister had a sweeping knowledge of surgery, and the thirty-eight folding copperplate illustrations of braces and bandages were long followed and are prototypes of those still in use.

Cited references: Waller 4234 (incomplete); Wellcome III, p. 237

Gift of John Martin, M.D.