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• Cautery -- Early works to 1800
• First aid in illness and injury -- Early works to 1800
• Hemorrhage -- Treatment -- Early works to 1800
• Surgical dressings -- Early works to 1800
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• Chirurgia, das ist, Handwürckung der Wundartzney (Durch Alexander Weyssenhorn, 1534), by Hieronymus Brunschwig, George E. Wantz, Jankok, and Fuss family (page images at HathiTrust)
• De vvlneribvs à bellico fulmine illatis. (Victorius Baldinus, 1596), by Ippolito Boschi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-Buch der Chirurgie. (Joh. Adam Stein und Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, 1747), by Lorenz Heister (page images at HathiTrust)
• A ternary of paradoxes : the magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine, image of God in man (Printed by James Flesher for William Lee ..., 1650), by Jean Baptiste van Helmont and Walter Charleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours fait en une célèbre assemblée, touchant la guérison des playes par la poudre de sympathie. English (London : Printed for John VVilliams, 1669), by Kenelm Digby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A compleat discourse of wounds, both in general and particular whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures : as also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown ... (London : Printed by E. Flesher for William Jacob ..., 1678), by John Browne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Discours sur le grand cordial de Sr Walter Rawleigh. English (London : Printed by J.F. for Octavian Pulleyn, Junior ..., 1664), by Nicaise Le Fèvre, Walter Raleigh, and P. Belon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Methode de traicter les playes faictes par hacquebutes et aultres bastons à feu. English (London : Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and are to be sold in Barbican, 1617), by Ambroise Paré and Walter Hamond (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The antidotharius in the whiche thou mayst learne howe thou shalte make many, and dyuers noble playsters, salues, oyntement, powders, bawmes, oyles, and wou[n]de drynkes, the whiche be very necessary, and behouefull, vtyle, and profytable, for euery surgyan, therin to be experte, and redy at all tymes of nede. ([London : Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, dwellyng at the sygne of saynt Ioh[a]n Euangelyst, in saynt Martyns parysshe: besyde Charynge Crosse, [1542?]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• De recta curandorum vulnerum ratione. English (Imprinted at London : By Thomas East, for Thomas Cadman, 1588), by Franciscus Arcaeus, John Read, John Arderne, and Galen (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A treatise of wounds by Richard Wiseman. (London : Printed by R. Norton for Richard Royston, 1672), by Richard Wiseman (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• De moxæ atque ignis in medicina rationali usu. (Upsaliæ., 1788), by Carl Peter Thunberg, Johan Gustaf Hallman, and Uppsala 1788 (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Seaman's Medical Instructor: In a Course of Lectures on Accidents and Diseases Incident to Seamen, by N. D. Falck (Gutenberg ebook)
• Helps for suddain accidents endangering life By which those that liue farre from physitions or chirurgions may happily preserue the life of a poore friend or neighbour, till such a man may be had to perfect the cure. Collected out of the best authours for the generall good, by Stephen Bradvvell. physition. (London : Printed by Thomas Purfoot, for T. S[later] and are to be sold by Henry Overton in Popes-head Alley, 1633), by Stephen Bradwell (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Rapport de MM. les Commissaires nommés par la Faculté de Médecine de Paris, pour l' examen du bandage du sieur cousin. (De l'Imprimerie de la Veuve Quillau ..., 1756), by Quillau (Veuve) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des bandages de chirurgie ; qui renferme la description des bandages ... avec des reflexions sur leur utilité, et sur l'avantage du choix, selon les cas particuliers ... (chez Augustin- Martin Lottin ..., Pierre-François Didot ..., 1763), by Augustin Martin Lottin, Pierre François Didot, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des appareils et des bandages, orné de figures ([s.n.], 1756), by Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des bandages ou methode exacte pour appliquer les bandages les plus usités en Chirurgie ... (s.n., 1761), by François-Michel Disdier and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La maniere de guérir par le moyen des bandages, les fractures et les luxations qui arrivent au corps humain avec un traité des playes ... (de l'imprimerie de la veuve d'Houry ..., 1738), by Laurent Verduc, De Cezan, Laurent d' Houry, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traitté des bandages (chez Jacques Desbordes ..., 1719), by Jacques Desbordes and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La maniere de guérir par le moyen des bandages, les fractures et les luxations qui arrivent au corps humain (chez Laurent d'Houry ..., 1712), by Laurent Verduc, Laurent d' Houry, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des bandages et des appareils : avec une description abbrégée des brayers ou bandages, et de plusieurs machines propres à différentes maladies (chez Guillaume Cavelier ... Et chez l'auteur, 1761), by Jean Joseph Sue, Guillaume Cavelier, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descentes de boyau, de l'aine, du nombril, du fondement, de la matrice ... : Bandages pour les pauvres gens de la campagne ... ; avec 9. figures de ces bandages. (chez la Veuve Denis Langlois ..., 1680), by Dénis Langlois and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tratado de vendages y apositos para el uso de los reales colegios de cirugia .. (Teresa Piferrer, 1763), by Francisco Canivell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A general system of surgery, in three parts. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers of all kinds. II. Of the several operations performed on all parts of the body. III. Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders. To which is prefixed an introduction, concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery; with such other preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the younger surgeons. Being a work of thirty years experience. (Printed for J. Clarke [etc.], 1763), by Lorenz Heister (page images at HathiTrust)

• A description of bandages and dressings : according to the most commodious ways now used in France (printed for W. Freeman, J. Walthoe, T. Newborough ... [et al.], 1701), by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc, T. Newborough, J. Walthoe, William Freeman, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Concise Relation of the Effects of an Extraordinary Styptic, Lately Discovered: In a Series of Letters from Several Gentlemen of the Faculty, and from the Patients, to Barth. Ruspini (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1789), by Bartholomew Ruspini (page images at NIH)

• Tratado de vendages y apositos para el uso de los reales colegios de cirugia .. (Teresa Piferrer, 1763), by Francisco Canivell (page images at HathiTrust)

• La mareschalerie (Chez Adrian, Perier, rue Sainct Iacques au Compas d'Or, 1610), by Laurentius Rusius and Adrian Perier (page images at HathiTrust)

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• A Complete Guide to Maggot Therapy: Clinical Practice, Therapeutic Principles, Production, Distribution, and Ethics (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), ed. by Frank Stadler (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Treatment of Infected Wounds (second edition; London: Balliere, Tindall and Cox, 1918), by Alexis Carrel and Georges Dehelly, trans. by Herbert Child, contrib. by Anthony A. Bowlby (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Faith-Healing in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Read Before the American Folk-Lore Society, November 29, 1890 (New York: De Vinne Press, 1891), by Charles F. Cox
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• We Are the Wounded (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1945), by Keith Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early care of the seriously wounded man. (Thomas, 1952), by Henry K. Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of the antiseptic treatment of wounds : for students and practitioners (J.H. Vail, 1885), by William Watson Cheyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A ternary of paradoxes. The magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine. Image of God in man. (Printed by J. Flesher for W. Lee, 1650), by Jean Baptiste van Helmont and Walter Charleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early care of acute soft tissue injuries. (Saunders, 1960), by American College of Surgeons. Committee on Trauma (page images at HathiTrust)
• The treatment of wounds; its principles and practice, general and special (W. Wood & company, 1883), by Lewis Stephen Pilcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the aseptic treatment of wounds : (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895), by Curt Schimmelbusch, Frank J. Thornbury, and Frank J. Thornbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• The treatment of war wounds (W.B. Saunders Company, 1918), by William W. Keen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traumatic surgery. (Saunders, 1921), by John J. Moorhead (page images at HathiTrust)
• The treatment of osteomyelitis and other infected wounds by drainage and rest. ([Printed by R. R. Donnelley & sons co.], 1927), by H. Winnett Orr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orthopædic surgery of injuries (H. Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton, 1921), by Robert Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earth as a topical application in surgery. (Lindsay & Blakiston, 1872), by Addinell Hewson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early care of acute soft tissue injuries (American College of Surgeons, 1954), by American College of Surgeons. Committee on Trauma (page images at HathiTrust)
• Intravenous injection in wound shock, being the Oliver-Sharpey lectures delivered before the Royal college of physicians of London in May 1918, by W.M. Bayliss... (Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by William Maddock 1860-1924 Bayliss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die verwundetenfürsorge in den heldenliedern des mittelalters (G. Fischer, 1917), by W. Haberling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of wound healing and wound repair. (Thomas, 1963), by Allen Oldfather Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on medical and surgical developments of the war. (Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., 1919), by William Seaman Bainbridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The treatment of infected wounds (P. B. Hoeber, 1917), by Alexis Carrel, Herbert Child, and Georges Dehelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traumatic surgery (W. B. Saunders company, 1918), by John J. Moorhead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die moderne wundbehandlung kritisch beleuchtet von einem homoöpathen. ([W. Schwabe], 1878), by Carl Bojanus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern surgical therapeutics : a compendium of current formulae, approved dressings and specific methods for treatment of surgical diseases and injuries (D.G. Brinton, 1878), by George H. Napheys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atlas und Grundriss der Unfallheilkunde sowie der Nachkrankheiten der Unfallverletzungen : mit 40 farbigen Tafeln, nach originalquarellen des malers Johann Fink und 141 schwarzen Abbildungen (Lehmann, 1900), by Eduard Golebiewski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burns, shock, wound healing and vascular injuries (W. B. Saunders, 1943), by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Surgery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frick's Antiseptic treatment of wounds (A. Eger, 1900), by Hermann Frick, A. H. Baker, Alexander Eger, and Louis A. Merillat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The treatment of wounds; its principles and practice, general and special, by Lewis S. Pilcher ... With one hundred and sixteen wood engravings. (W. Wood, 1883), by Lewis Stephen Pilcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Verwendung des Gaudafils in der Wundbehandlung (R. Müller & Steinicke, 1914), by Hermann v Bönninghausen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Vorgänge bei der Wundheilung. (Universitäts-Buchdruckerei von J. Hörnung, 1898), by F. A. Kehrer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress report on acceleration of burn and wound healing with trace elements (University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1956), by William H. Strain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vergleichende klinische und experimentelle Untersuchungen über die Wirkungsweise von Scharlachrot, Amidoazotoluol, Pellidol und Azodermin. (J. F. Ziegler, 1913), by Hugo Herberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die antiseptische Wundbehandlung mit Sublimat. (Breitkopf, 1885), by Max Schede (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern methods of antiseptic wound treatment : compiled from notes and suggestions from the following surgeons (Published by Johnson & Johnson, 1888), by Johnson & Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Wundbehandlung mit Naphtalin (Universitäts-Buchdruckerei von Johann Heinrich Eduard Heitz, 1882), by Carl Bonning (page images at HathiTrust)
• How we treat wounds to-day : A treatise on the subject of antiseptic surgery which can be understood by beginners. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889), by Robert T. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The treatment of infected wounds (Hoeber, 1919), by Alexis Carrel and Georges Dehelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundriss der Wundversorgung und Wundbehandlung; sowie der Behandlung geschlossener Infektionsherde. (Springer, 1921), by Wilhelm von Gaza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours fait en un célèbre assemblée, touchant la guerison des playes par la poudre de sympathie. (Librairie spiritualiste, 1895), by Kenelm Digby and Georges Démarest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traitement des plaies par douches d'air chaud. (Maloine, 1923), by Jacques Bandaline (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatment of burns and prevention of wound infections. (Medical division, U.S. Office of civilian defense, 1942), by United States. Office of Civilian Defense. Medical Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• A few remarks on the primary treatment of wounds received in battle; a report to the surgeon-general of Massachusetts. (D. Clapp, printer, 1862), by George Henry Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le traitement des plaies infectées (Masson, 1917), by Alexis Carrel and Georges Dehelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die antiseptische Wundbehandlung in ihren Erfolgen und Wirkungen (Verlag von Ferdinand Enke, 1892), by Heinrich Helferich (page images at HathiTrust)
• How we treat wounds to-day; a treatise on the subject of antiseptic surgery which can be understood by beginners (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1886), by Robert T. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carrel's Wondbehandeling : een proefondervindelijk en klinisch onderzoek. (A.H. Kruyt, 1918), by Willem Gerard de Haas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outline of the antiseptic treatment of wounds; for veterinarians. (A. Eger, 1911), by Hermann Frick and A. H. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clinical lecture on the antiseptic treatment of wounds by dry and infrequent dressings delivered at the Montreal General Hospital, June 28th, 1884 (s.n., 1884), by Francis J. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some cases of feigned eruptions (s.n., 1897), by Francis J. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The treatment of infected wounds (Macmillan, 1917), by Alexis Carrel and Georges Dehelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Kenelm Digby and his powder of sympathy (A.R. Elliott, 1916), by William Renwick Riddell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The after treatment of wounds and injuries (Blakiston's Son, 1919), by R. C. Elmslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the treatment of wounds and fractures : clinical lectures (P. Blakiston, 1883), by Sampson Gamgee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anleitung zur Technik der antiseptischen Wundbehandlung und des Dauerverbandes (Lipsius & Tischer, 1883), by Gustav Neuber (page images at HathiTrust)
• How we treat wounds to-day : a treatise on the subject of antiseptic surgery which can be understood by beginners (G.P. Putnam, 1888), by Robert T. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Streamlined bandaging : simplified, pictorial handbook for doctors, nurses, first aid instructors, and medical military personnel (Herald Printers & Publishers, 1942), by Kenneth M. Manning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earth as a topical application in surgery; being a full exposition of its use in all the cases requiring topical applications admitted in the men's and women's surgical wards of the Pennsylvania Hospital during a period of six months in 1869. (Medical Register Co., 1887), by Addinell Hewson (page images at HathiTrust)
• First aid for soldiers. (Dept. of the Army, 1976), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jones--treatment of wounds (Printed, and sold, by Robert Bell, in Third Street, 1776), by John Jones, Thomas Cadwalader, and Robert Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physicians' reference book of emergency medical service, a compilation, chiefly from medical literature, presenting the practical experience and lessons acquired in handling civilian war casualties. (E. R. Squibb & sons, 1942), by E.R. Squibb & Sons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A late discourse made in a solemne assembly of nobles and learned men at Montpellier in France touching the cure of wounds by the powder of sympathy : with instructions how to make the said powder : whereby many other secrets of nature are unfolded / by Sr. Kenelme Digby, knight ; rendred faithfully out of French into English by R. White. (London : Printed for R. Lownes and T. Davies, 1658), by Kenelm Digby and R. White (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Casus medico-chirurgicus, or, A most memorable case, of a noble-man deceased wherein is shewed His Lordship's wound, the various diseases survening, how his physicians and surgeons treated him, how treated by the author after my Lord was given over by all his physicians, with all their opinions and remedies : moreover, the art of curing the most dangerous of wounds, by the first intention, with the description of the remedies / by Gideon Harvey ... (London : Printed for M. Rooks ..., 1678), by Gideon Harvey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A ternary of paradoxes the magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine, image of God in man / written originally by Joh. Bapt. Van Helmont and translated, illustrated and amplified by Walter Charleton. (London : Printed by James Flesher for William Lee ..., [1650]), by Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Walter Charleton, and Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The history of generation examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his discourse of bodies : with a general relation of the manner of generation, as well in plants as animals : with some figures delineating the first originals of some creatures ... : to which is joyned, A discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy, or without any real applycation of medicines to the part affected, but especially by that powder, known chiefly by the name of Sir Gilbert Talbots powder / by Nath. Highmore ... (London : Printed by R.N. for John Martin ..., 1651), by Nathaniel Highmore and Kenelm Digby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Novum lumen chirurgicum extinctum, or, Med. Colbatch's New light of chirurgery put out: Wherein the dangerous and uncertain woundcuring of the pretending med. and the base imposture of his quack medicines, are impartially examin'd, describ'd, and evidently confuted and the method and medicines formerly receiv'd, and successfully practis'd, are rationally vindicated from the calumnies of his ignorant and malicious aspersions. : His experiments which he mentions, convicted of falshood; and others what their miscarriages are, annex'd; which he had craftily and knowingly suppress'd. / By W.W. surgeon. (London : Printed, and sold by Andrew Bell at the Cross-Keys in the Poultrey, 1695), by surgeon W. W. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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