A system of surgery. Extracted from the works of Benjamin Bell, of Edinburgh. Illustrated with notes and copper-plates. Second edition.

Published by Printed by Budd & Bartram for Thomas Dobson, 1802., Philadelphia:, 1802

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8vo. viii, 570, xxix, [1] pp. 11 of 12 engraved plates (missing plate VII); foxed. Modern half leatherette, marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine label. This copy inscribed in friendship from Ross C. Pyle, MD, to Fred Frye, MD, Oct. 1981. Binding is fine; contents are very good (noting the plate lacking). C333(02) "Bell was the first to differentiate between gonorrhea and syphilis." — Garrison and Morton 2378. "Although chiefly regarded at a surgeon, Bell's interests extended to clinical medicine and pathology as well. In this treatise on gonorrhea which was first published in Edinburgh in 1793, he delineates the clinical distinction between gonorrhea and syphilis, although it remained for Ricord to prove their separate identity." — Heirs of Hippocrates. / "[This work] appears to me to be the ablest and most valuable of [my grandfather's] writings, conveying the impression that his experience of the diseases treated of had been unusually ample; that he had investigated them with great pains; thought much and long upon the whole subject; and arrived at very decided opinions, some of them original, some in direct opposition to writers of the highest authority. A careful perusal of the treatise, in the light of our present knowledge, has satisfied me that his views were very enlightened and in advance of the period when he wrote . . ." — Benjamin Bell (F.R.C.S.E., F.R.S.E.), The Life, Character & Writings of Benjamin Bell. By His Grandson . (1868), pp. 130-1. / Bell was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons or Ireland and Edinburgh, surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.…

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Title
A system of surgery. Extracted from the works of Benjamin Bell, of Edinburgh. Illustrated with notes and copper-plates. Second edition.
Author
BELL, Benjamin (1749-1806).
Publisher
Printed by Budd & Bartram for Thomas Dobson, 1802., Philadelphia:
Publication year
1802
Binding
Hardcover

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Jeff Weber Rare Books, established in 1986, relocated from California to Montreux, Switzerland in 2020. I specialize in the history of science, history of medicine, early printed books, fine printing, bibliography, Persia, fore-edge painting, scholarly books. I buy collections and do regular appraisal work.

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