Cours d'Operations de Chirurgie. Demontrees au Jardin royal, par M. Dionis, premier chirurgien de feues mesdames les dauphines, & chirurgien jure a Paris. Sixieme edition, revue, augmentee de remarques importantes, & enrichie de figures en tailles-douces, qui representent les instrumens nouveaux les plus en usage. Par M. George de La Faye, professeur & demonstrateur royal en chirurgie, ancien chirurgien des camps & armees du Roi, ancien directeur de l'academie royale de chirurgie, associe de l'academie de Madrid & de celle de Rouen.

Paris:: Chez la Veuve d'Houry, 1765., 1765. 2 volumes. 8vo. xxxii, 480; [2], 481-920 pp. Engraved copper-plate frontispiece portrait of the author signed by Boulogne, 61 numbered figures, 4 non-numbered plates, after the last plate is a new series of 4 numbered plates (69 woodcuts in all), headpieces, initial letters, index. Contemporary mottled calf, elaborately gilt-stamped spine with dual spine labels of marron and black; heavily rubbed, shelf-edges scuffed, corners showing. Very good. [TK 72] Sixth edition, revised and enlarged and with added figures. / The text relates to all kinds of surgical procedures and related items, especially of medical instruments. The sections offer information on surgical instruments, plasters, compresses, bandages, operations of the lower abdomen, hernias, hydrocele testis, Caesarean operation, operations of the penis or vagina, kidney stones, childbirths and related surgical applications, operations of the anus, haemorrhoids, operations of the chest, skull fractures, artificial eyes, nose sores, polyps, amputations, extraction of foreign bodies, suction cups, warts or leeks, embalming, etc. (Inventory #: M14901)