Chapter II

OPERATIVE SURGERY; OR, A DESCRIPTION AND DEMONSTRATION OF THE VARIOUS PROCESSES OF THE ART; INCLUDING ALL THE NEW OPERATIONS, AND EXHIBITING THE STATE OF SURGICAL SCIENCE IN ITS PRESENT ADVANCED CONDITION.

BY JOSEPH PANCOAST, M. D.,

Professor of General, Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.

_Complete in One Royal 4to. Volume of 380 pages of letterpress description and eighty large 4to. plates, comprising 486 Illustrations, and being the only complete work on the subject in the English Language. Price, full bound in cloth, only $10._

Second Edition, Improved.

"This excellent work is constructed on The model of the French Surgical Works by Velpeau and Malgaigne; and, so far as the English language is concerned, we are proud as an American to say that, OF ITS KIND IT HAS NO SUPERIOR."--_New York Journal of Medicine._

"For this beautiful volume, the student and practitioner of Surgery will feel grateful to the ability and industry of Prof. Pancoast. The drawing and execution of the plates are splendid examples of American art, and do credit to Messrs. Cichowski and Duval, while the description is no less creditable to the author. We have examined the book with care, and feel great pleasure in declaring that, in our opinion, it is a most valuable addition to the surgical literature of the United States. It was a happy idea to illustrate this department of surgery, as it renders perfectly clear what the very best verbal description often leaves obscure, and is, to some extent, a substitute for witnessing operations. To those practitioners especially, who are called upon occasionally, only, to perform operations, we are not acquainted with any volume better calculated for reference prior to using the knife. There are similar works published in Europe, but they are much more expensive, without being superior in point of usefulness to the very cheap volume before us.

"All the modern operations for the cure of squinting, club-foot, and the replacing lost parts and repairing deformities from partial destruction of the nose, &c., are very clearly explained and prettily illustrated. It is questionable whether anything on this subject can be better adapted to its purpose, than Pancoast's Operative Surgery."--_Saturday Courier._