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Billroth, Christian Albert Theodor (1829 - 1894)
DIE ALLGEMEINE CHIRURGISCHE PATHOLOGIE UND THERAPIE IN FUNFZIG VORLESUNGEN. EIN HANDBUCH FÜR STUDIRENDE UND AERZTE
Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1869.
8vo. XVIII, 748 pp. 152 text wood-engravings.

Contemporary half calf, spine worn, joints partly cracked.

$ 25

Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. "Billroth, professor of surgery at Zürich and Vienna, was the founder of the Vienna School of Surgery. He has also been called the founder of modern abdominal surgery, and was one of the first to introduce antisepsis into the Continental operating room. The above work, which placed him in the front rank, was translated into ten languages"(G-M)

* G-M 5608 for the first ed. Berlin 1863. Norman 235 (1st ed.).

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