A short treatise on operative surgery : describing the principal operations as they are practiced in England and France, designed for the use of students in operating on the dead body / By Charles Averill.

  • Averill, Charles.
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A short treatise on operative surgery : describing the principal operations as they are practiced in England and France, designed for the use of students in operating on the dead body / By Charles Averill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this bdng always a desirable object^ and now rendered too imperative, by the im¬ pediments so injuriously opposed to the supply of subjects. Those operations, which every Surgeon ought to be able to perform dexterously, are here described, in conformity with the rules adopted in the hospitals of England and France ; according to the methods taught by Mens. Lisfranc, Surgeon to the first Dispensary, and Professor of Operative Surgery at the Hospital of la Pitie in Paris ; as the Author himself has been accustomed to perform them, some on living subjects, and all on the dead body, in the course of his private anatomical studies. The operations which are requisite for the cure of Strangulated Hernia, for Hy¬ drocele, for diseases of the eye, for contrac¬ tions of theiEsophagus, Urethra, and Intes-