DORSEY, JOHN SYNG - Elements of surgery / by John Syng Dorsey.
Philadelphia, Kimber & Conrad (W. Brown), 1813, First Edition. Hard Cover, 22 cm. xx, 324 p, [6] folded leaves of Plates. Ill.: Dorsey, J. S.. Very Good/No Jacket.¶ Vol I has an added engraved t-p.with a vignette view of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Original Calf, gilt titles, Fr. Fr. EP of Volume 1 supplied. Dorsey, An early American practitioner educated in the United States, published this medical text on operative surgery. It was the first written by an American and published here. Seven of the plates were drawn or engraved by the author. It went through 3 editions becoming a standard text. It was preceded by several issues of an English text with his revisions. He also published several of his innovations in operative surgery. "A renowned surgeon who performed the first successful ligation of the external iliac artery in the United States." ~Kaufman 211. This work "received world-wide recognition." Kelly Burrage 336, Shaw & Shoemaker, 28351, FIRST EDITION, "The First systematic treatise on surgery written by an American", Garrison-Morton 5585.1, Austin 678, Wellcome II,481. RLin 1 Loc. [U of Roch.] Dorsey was also first president of the AMA. Free front. end paper of Vol.1 supplied. otherwise a VG to Fine copy..
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