Author: Urban,Sylvanus
Title: GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE: Vol.LXIV Part II for Jul-Dec 1794
Description: London, John Nichols 1794 Illustrations (21 in this half year volume) + two text illustrations. . 8vo containing 6 monthly issues for July to December. Tan roan spined marbled boards (covers detached, corners worn & slightly scuffed /partly split to mid-spine) fore-edges sprinkled red and brown. General titlepage + 585-1212pp which includes the SUPPLEMENT + [16pp=index Each monthly issue has a "titlepage" with a view of St. John's Gate. *Includes the unknown in Europe surgical operation of reconstructing the nose.This description of PLASTIC SURGERY is shown in a plate at page 883 signed "Longmate sc." This volume also comments on French affairs and on America also contains a letter by Benjamin Franklin to the Earl of Buchan etc. etc SOUGHT FOR THE PICTURE & DESCRIPTION OF RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY.

Keywords: MEDICAL first European description of plastic surgery, French revolution America


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