A dictionary of practical surgery

Comprehending all the most interesting improvements, from the earliest times down to the present period; an account of the instruments and remedies employed in surgery; the etymology and signification of the principal terms; and numerous references to ancient and modern works, forming a catalogue of surgical literature, arranged according to subjects

By Samuel Cooper, senior surgeon to the University College Hospital; professor of surgery in the same college; surgeon to the Queen's bench, et.c etc. etc. With numerous notes and additions, embracing all the principal improvements and greater operations introduced and performed by American surgeons. Together with a supplementary index, in which the science of surgery is brought down to the present period, including all the recent improvements in Europe and America. By David Meredith Reese, A.M., M. D., professor of the thoery and practice of physic, and of the principles of surgery in Castleton Medical College, Vermont, and professor of the institutes of medicine and medical jurisprudence in the Washington University of Baltimore, honorary member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland; member of the medical societies of Maryland and New York, etc. etc.