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Operations, Surgical - Early works to 1800

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    A syllabus of what is to be perform'd in a course of anatomy, Chirurgical operations, and bandages. By John Douglas, Surgeon.

    Douglas, John, approximately 1680-1743. | Date: 1719
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    Lithotomia Douglassiana: or, an account of a new method of making the high operation, in order to extract the stone out of the bladder. Which is much easier to the Patient, much sooner done by the Operator, and the Cure much more certain, than after any of the other Methods now in Use. By which also, several of the most dismal Consequences of the common Operations are entirely prevented, such as incontinency of Urine, Impotency, Fistula's, &c. Invented and successfully perform'd by John Douglas, surgeon.

    Douglas, John, approximately 1680-1743. | Date: MDCCXX. [1720]
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    A treatise on the high operation for the stone with XVII. copper-plates. By William Cheselden Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital in Southwark, and F. R. S.

    Cheselden, William, 1688-1752. | Date: M.DCCXXIII. [1723]
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    Lithotomia Douglassiana: or, a new method of cutting for the stone; first practised by John Douglas Surgeon, F. R. S. And Lythotomist to the Infirmary at Westminster: To which is added, what has been written by the most Judicious Rossetus, and the learned Pietreus, on the same subject. Illustrated with several copper plates.

    Douglas, John, approximately 1680-1743. | Date: 1723
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