Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 956

GIOVANNI AMBROGIO MARIA BERTRANDI (1723-1765) Trattato delle operazioni di chirurgia. Presso Domenico Fracasso 1786 Vol. I: 240 pp.; Vol. II: 264 pp., illus., 4 fold. plates. 18.4 cm.

One of the numerous treatises on surgery appearing in the eighteenth century when surgery had emerged from its somewhat inferior position with respect to medicine, this particular work by a little-known Italian surgeon seems to be unknown in most of the medical book collections.

Cited references: Wellcome II, p. 156 (1763 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.