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PANCOAST, Joseph. A Treatise On Operative Surgery; Comprising A Description of the Various Processes of the Art, Including All The New Operations; Exhibiting the State of Surgical Science in its Present Advanced Condition; With Eighty Plates, Containing Four Hundred and Eighty-Six Separate Illustrations.
Philadephia: A. Hart, Late Carey and Hart, 1852. Third edition, revised and enlarged (first published 1844). 4to., orig. brown cloth lettered in gilt on the upper board, this copy has been professionally rebacked with a leather spine, leather spine labels, 389pp. double columns. With eighty plates (with plate 7 bound as the frontis). Some scattered foxing, there is an 3" long ink stain on the fore-edge of the first 35pp. which affects the margin of a few leaves, slight dampstain that affects the top inner margin of the first few pages, rebacked with a leather spine, some wear to the edges but certainly a very good copy of this work on surgery.
Joseph Pancoast [1805-1882] American surgeon, who served as physician and visiting surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital and Pennsylvania Hospital, and was appointed Professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College in 1838. ‘Pancoast was recognized as one of the leading surgeons of his day and was known as a skillful operator, an accomplished medical writer, and a popular teacher of surgical anatomy. He was noted for his ability in plastic and reconstructive surgery and was one of the first American surgeons to devise an operation for exstrophy of bladder which employed plastic abdominal flaps. Other successes include thoracentesis for empyema, reconstruction of the eyebrow, excision of soft and mixed cataracts, tenotomy for strabismus, and a neurosurgical procedure for sectioning the fifth cranial nerve to relieve tic douloureux. He contributed regularly to the leading medical journals and was responsible for three editions of Wistar's System of Anatomy, as well as four editions of Quain's A series of Anatomical Drawings. The present work is his major medical monograph and went through three editions, the last in 1852. It was, according to the Advertisement, ‘a work that shall represent, so far as its limits will allow, the operative surgery of the day.' It succeeded admirably and was an unsurpassed resource for the student and practicing surgeon, because Pancoast went to great effort to insure that the plates and text would be as instructive as possible. The section on plastic surgery was one of the most extensive, detailed, and important of the period. The eighty lithographic plates are well-executed and provide graphic and accurate depictions of the operations described in the text. (Heirs of Hippocrates). G & M 5598; Walker 7083; Heirs of Hippocrates 1677.