Facets

1962

#7946

Peresadka zhiznenno vazhnykh organov v eksperimente. Experimental transplantation of vital organs. Authorized translation from the Russian by Basil Haigh.

Demikhov coined the term transplantology, and this work, first published in Russian in 1960, and translated and published in 1962 in New York, Berlin and Madrid, was the first monograph on transplantation of organs an…

1963

#8835

The journal of James Yonge, Plymouth surgeon (1647-1721). Edited by F. N. L. Poynter.

A complete account of Yonge's life from the age of ten until the age of 61. "It is considered to be the most important diary of the 17th century after those of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn.[1] In it Yonge mentioned fa…

1968

#8406

Die Alexandrinischen Chururgen. Eine Sammlung und Auswertung ihrer Fragmente.

1971

#8364

The cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac. I Text (E.E.T.S., 265) Edited by Margaret S. Ogden.

Middle English text of Guy de Chauliac's surgery.

1975

#5813.10

The healing hand: Man and wound in the ancient world.

Emphasizing surgery, this is an exceptionally imaginative and exquisitely designed and illustrated history of medicine in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China.

1975

#8633

La chirurgie à Montpellier de ses origines au début du XIXe siècle.

1980

#11454

Professionalizing modern medicine: Paris surgeons and medical science and institutions in the 18th century.

1988

#9970

A history of surgery: With emphasis on the Netherlands.

1993

#9054

La experiencia americana y la terapéutica en los Secretos de Chirurgia (1567), de Pedro Arias de Benavides.

1995

#7211

Kinetic jottings: Rare and curious books in the library of the old Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.

Outstanding descriptions and superb illustrations of a very unusual collection of books, including those on fencing, gymnastics, orthopedics, physical medicine, acrobatics, and dance.

1997

#12759

Inventarium sive Chirurgia Magna. Vol. 1: Text, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh. Vol. 2: Commentary, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Margaret Ogden. 2 vols.

Definitive edition of the medieval Latin text of Guy's Surgery from MS Vat. Palat. Lat. 1317, completed in Montpellier in 1373, only a decade after the text is thought to have been completed. The editors traced the mo…

1998

#12336

History of cardiovascular surgery. Edited by L. A. Bockeria.

An international conference on the history of cardiovascular surgery. Dedicated to the memory of V.I. Burakovsky (Moscow, September 24-25, 1996). Attendees and contributors included many Western and Russian pioneers.

2001

#13288

Surgeons at war: Medical arrangements for the treatment of the sick and wounded in the British army during the late 18th and 19th centuries.

2005

#12559

Historia de la anestesia en España. 1847-1940.

2007

#7963

"Operation Anubis": A world first in no scar surgery. Press release April 26th 2007.

The operation, which took place on April 2, 2007 at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, in which Marescaux and team removed the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) of a patient through the vagina using a flexible endosco…

2014

#5557

De arte phisicale et de cirurgia

John of Arderne was the first English surgeon of note. The Stockholm manuscript preserved in the National Library of Stockholm is an illustrated vellum roll nearly 18 feet long and 15 inches wide written in England in…

2015

#9957

Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture. Edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.

Essays on a wide range of aspects of wounds during the Middle Ages, particularly resulting from war and violence, but also those of Christ, from ca. 1000 CE to the 15th century in the West (England, Ireland, Scotland,…