A treatise on lesser surgery, or, The minor surgical operations / Tr. from the French with notes and an appendix, by William C. Roberts & James B. Kissam.

  • Bourgery, J. M. (Jean Marc), 1797-1849.
Date:
1834
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Credit: A treatise on lesser surgery, or, The minor surgical operations / Tr. from the French with notes and an appendix, by William C. Roberts & James B. Kissam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    RECOMMENDATIONS. Park Place, Jlugust 13, 1833. Dear Doctors—I have been acquainted for several years with M. Bour- gery's Traite de Petite Chirurgie, and have often expressed my opinion of the excellence of it privately, as well as in my public lectures. We have no such tract, as far as I know, in the English language, and I have frequently regretted that the value of this book should be confined to those only who ara familiar with the French. Few persons are aware of the value of the smaller details of the profession, until they become engaged in its toils. I rejoice to find that you intend to make an English version of it. You have my best wishes, and are entitled to the thanks of the profession. With great regard, yours truly, Drs, Roberts and Kissam. VALENTINE MOTT. Chambers-street, Sept. 4, 1833. Dear Sirs—I have looked over the copy of Bourgcry's Traite de Petite Chirurgie you left with me for that purpose. It appears to be a judicious code of instruction for the performance of the minor operations and manipu- lations of Surgery. I wish you success in the translation of it. I am truly yours, ALEX. H. STEVENS. Drs. Roberts and Kissam. Extract from the review of M. Bourgery's Traite de Petite Chi- rurgie, on page 35, No. 1, Vol. I. of the New-York Medico- Chirurgical Bulletin, edited by George Bushe, M. D., late Pro- fessor of Anatomy in Rutger's Medical College, New-York. ** This treatise is from the pen of a surgeon little known on this side of the Atlantic, and it is more than probable that his name is not very widely circulated on the other ; still, like many of his cotemporaries, as yet strangers in the republic of medicine, he augurs well. He has written a work on a much neglected subject, and executed it with consummate ability. In the preface, he says he was urged to undertake the work with a view of sup- plying a deficiency in surgical authorship, every where and by every one admitted. It is a fact that at this day we have very many treatises on surgery from the ablest masters in Britain, France, Italy, Germany and America; but while they unfold the intricacies of the more difficult surgical diseases and operations (which by the way occur in comparison with others but seldom, and are treated but by few surgeons), are nearly silent on what our author calls Petite Chirurgie,'''' a branch so extensive as to demand a daily por- tion of the attention of every physician. We are rather disposed to eulogize the performance, and have no hesi- tation in asserting that it ought to find a place in the library of every sur- geon, as a useful appendix to the scholastic performances of Cooper, Sa- batier, Boyer, G.Helius, Langenbeck, Assilini, Dorsey, and Gibson. It is of an advantageous size for the market, and would no doubt well repay a translator.