PANCOAST JOSEPH A Treatise on Operative Surgery Third Edi

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PANCOAST, JOSEPH. A Treatise on Operative Surgery . . . Third Edition, revised and enlarged. 80 uncolored lithographed plates. 4to, modern 1/4 cloth with calf lettering piece; some heavy foxing of text, particularly on preliminaries, most plates clean. Philadelphia: A. Hart, late Carey and Hart, 1852

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"One of the most remarkable nineteenth-century American surgical textbooks" (Rutkow), superbly illustrated, with the earliest and most extensive section on plastic and reconstructive surgery to appear in an American medical work. Garrison-Morton 5598; Heirs of Hippocrates 1677; Rutkow GS22 (all citing the 1844 original edition).