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  • Collection: Surgical Tracts

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Surgery: cancer of the breast, field operation, just before the final cut.
Plate L

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Table XLII-XLIII
Table XLII. Instruments for operating on the mouth. Table XLIII. The removal of breast tumours.

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2 volumes (xliii, 586; vii, 603 pages; 103 pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Includes index in v. 2
Bibliography of William S. Halsted: v. 2, p. 535-563

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4 volumes, color plates : add. engr. t.ps. ; (folio)

Text, vols. i-ii, and plates, vols. i-ii. The later have add. engr. titles 'Trattato completo dell'anatomia, etc.'
Copy 1 Vol. 1 Note: Text, v. 1.
Copy 1 Vol. 2 Note: Text, v. 2.
Copy 1 Vol.…

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Illustration shows the excision of a cancerous growth from a woman's breast, an operation which Hanaoka Seishu first carried out in 1804 using general anasthetic

Kamata Keishu, a pupil of the renowned surgeon Hanaoka Seishu (1760 - 1835),…
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