Practical surgery illustrated and improved: being chirurgical observations with remarks, upon the most extraordinary cases, cures, and dissections, made at St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark

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Title

Practical surgery illustrated and improved: being chirurgical observations with remarks, upon the most extraordinary cases, cures, and dissections, made at St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark

Subject

popular medical tract

Description

294 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves, 14 pages : frontispiece (portrait), plate ; (8vo)
2 illustrations (frontispiece is Beckett's portrait, same he uses on another medical tract / second is an allegorical, personification of surgery with a table of tools)

Creator

Beckett, William, 1684-1738

Source

Wellcome
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/nnurj4pd

Publisher

London : E. Curll, etc., 1740.

Collection

Citation

Beckett, William, 1684-1738 , “Practical surgery illustrated and improved: being chirurgical observations with remarks, upon the most extraordinary cases, cures, and dissections, made at St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark,” European Mastectomy, accessed May 24, 2026, https://www.european-mastectomy.artinterp.org/items/show/296.