Silver Sutures in Surgery. The Anniversary Discourse, Before the New York Academy of Medicine. FIRST EDITION.

SIMS, J. Marion

Published by New York: Samuel & William Wood, 1858., 1858

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79 pp. Recent 1/4-leather and cloth, with original front wrapper bound in. Very Good. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 5605. "By 1857, only four years after his transplantation to the metropolis, Sims's reputation had increased to such an extent that he was selected to deliver the Anniversary Discourse before the New York Academy of Medicine. . . . The choice of Sims . . . was an acknowledgment that surgical gynecology, of which he was the foremost exponent, had outgrown its novitiate and was about to be accepted as a recognized specialty. As its spokesman he delivered an informative address on silver sutures, pointing out that they were not only the sine qua non in the success of his vesicovaginal operation, but also an effective means of lessening the dangers of infection in a wide range of surgical procedures. Silver sutures, he said, had revolutionized surgery by ensuring prompt, beautiful cures free from inflammation and suppuration which so often attended the use of silk ligatures. In amplification of this thesis he gave a detailed account of his trials and troubles in his early vesicovaginal experiments in Montgomery, culminating in his salvation by silver sutures. . ." (Harris, Woman's Surgeon, pp. 190-91; see 190-200). Speert, Obstetric & Gynecologic Milestones, pp. 449-50. Heirs of Hippocrates 1804. Rutkow, The History of Surgery in the United States, Vol. I, GS44.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Silver Sutures in Surgery. The Anniversary Discourse, Before the New York Academy of Medicine. FIRST EDITION.
• Publisher: New York: Samuel & William Wood, 1858.
• Publication Date: 1858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good