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Report of an operation for removing a foreign body from beneath the heart. Published by the San Francisco County Medico Chirurgical Association as an additional paper to its Transactions for the year 1857.

San Francisco, CA: Whitton, Towne & Co. Printers and Publishers, 1857.

Perhaps the earliest separate publication on a surgical operation issued in California.

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Entry Number#12322
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/14545
Author Bio Linkelane.stanford.edu ↗
External URLreport-of-an-operation-for-removing-a-foreign-body-from-beneath-the-heart-published-by-the-san-francisco-county-medico-chirurgical-association-as-an-additional-paper-to-its-transactions-for-the-year-1857

Geographic Context

Publication place: San Francisco, CA