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DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION
DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION

DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF WOUNDS BY JOHN BELL 1795 FIRST EDITION

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[BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)]. Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds. I. Of generalls. Of procuring adhesion. Of wounded arteries. Of gun-shot wounds. Of the medical treatment of wounds. II. Of particulars. Of wounds of the breast. Of wounds of the belly. Of wounds of the head. Of wounds of the throat. III. Of dangerous tounds of the limbs. Of the question of amputation. Edinburgh: printed for Bell & Bradfute; and T. Cadell Junr and W. Davies, (successors to Mr Cadell), London, M DCC XCV. [1795].

First edition, three parts in one, leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (23.5cm x 15cm x 2.7cm), pp. [4], vi, [2], 241, [3], 169, [3], 67, [3], plates; English text. Bound in contemporary half calf, smooth spine gilt with morocco lettering-piece, marbled paper-covered boards. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. General title-page, plus divisional titles, each part with separate pagination, and register. Two illustrated plates in part III between pages 34 and 35. Directions to the binder on the final leaf. Printed footnotes. Provenance: James Clarke's armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the joints and hinges intact, light rubbing to extremities. Collated complete, the interior very well-preserved with just a few faint spots. Previous owner signatures neatly inked to front pastedown and front endpaper. Scarce.

Notes: "A founder of the modern surgery of the vascular system... Bell's most enduring contributions to surgery are his Discourses &c. the second of which is a valuable historical discussion of the surgery of the arteries."-Garrison. [Austin 192; ESTC N8741].
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