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Operations, Surgical

Here is entered literature relating to the risks and accidents of surgical operations, treatment of patients after operations, mortality, and other generalities. Works on the details of the operations themselves are entered under Surgery, Operative. Works relating especially to methods of securing asepsis are entered under Surgery, Aseptic and antiseptic.

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• Surgery
• Surgery, Operative

• Surgery -- Psychological aspects

• Surgical operations

• Bacteriology and Surgical Technique for Nurses (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1900), by Emily M. A. Stoney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Sander L. Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica: Supplementum (partial serial archives)
• The Principles of Surgery (second edition, with notes and additions; New York: Collins and Co., 1812), by John Bell, ed. by John Augustine Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Science and Art of Surgery (American edition based on the second London edition; Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1860), by John Eric Erichsen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Surgical Treatment: Evidence-Based and Problem-Oriented, ed. by R. Holzheimer and John A. Mannick (HTML at NIH)
• Minor and Operative Surgery, Including Bandaging (sixth edition; Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers and Co., c1905), by Henry R. Wharton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A General System of Surgery In Three Parts (translated from Latin, fourth edition; London: printed for W. Innys, et al., 1750), by Lorenz Heister
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Treatises of Fistula in Ano, Haemorrhoids and Clysters (15th century MS translation; this edition 1910), by John Arderne, ed. by D'Arcy Power
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Cirugia y Cirujanos (in Spanish) (partial serial archives)
• BMC Surgery (2001-) (full serial archives)
• Canadian Journal of Surgery (issue online 1957-1993 and 1996-) (partial serial archives)
• Annals of Surgery (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Medical and Surgical Research (2014-) (full serial archives)
• The American Journal of Surgery (partial serial archives)
• Archives of Surgery (partial serial archives)
• Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica (partial serial archives)
• Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (partial serial archives)
• The Surgical Clinics of North America (partial serial archives)
• International Abstract of Surgery (partial serial archives)
• The Surgical Clinics of Chicago (full serial archives)
• Edinburgh Medical Journal (full serial archives)
• The New England Journal of Medicine (partial serial archives)
• Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (partial serial archives)
• British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review (and predecessor journals, 1799-1877) (full serial archives)
• Bulletin de la Société de Médecine et de Chirurgie de la Rochelle (in French) (partial serial archives)
• The Medical Times and Register (partial serial archives)
• The Medico-Chirurgical Review (and predecessor journals, 1816-1847) (full serial archives)
• Medico-Chirurgical Transactions (full serial archives)
• The New-England Journal of Medicine and Surgery (partial serial archives)
• The Times and Register (19th century Philadelphia medical journal) (full serial archives)
• Guy's Hospital Gazette (partial serial archives)

• Anatomy, Regional and Applied (second edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1959), by R. J. Last (page images at HathiTrust)
• Surgical Applied Anatomy (8th edition; Philadelphia and New York: Lea and Febinger, 1927), by Frederick Treves and C. C. Choyce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Celebrated Dr. Frederic Ruysch's Practical Observations in Surgery and Midwifry (English translation of "Observationum Anatomico-Chirurgicarum Centuria"; London: Printed for T. Osborne, 1751), by Frederik Ruysch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Observationum Anatomico-Chirurgicarum Centuria (in Latin; Amsterdam: Apud Henricum et Viduam Theodori Boom, 1691), by Frederik Ruysch (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Anesthesia and Perioperative Care of the Combat Casualty (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 1995), ed. by Russ Zajtchuk and Christopher M. Grande (PDF files at Borden Institute)

• A Text-Book of Electro-Therapeutics and Electro-Surgery, for the Use of Students and General Practitioners (New York and Philadelphia: Boericke and Tafel, 1878), by John Butler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Indwelling Neural Implants: Strategies for Contending with the In Vivo Environment (2008), ed. by William M. Reichert (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Anesthesia and Perioperative Care of the Combat Casualty (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 1995), ed. by Russ Zajtchuk and Christopher M. Grande (PDF files at Borden Institute)
• War Surgery (1915), by Edmond Delorme, trans. by Henry Eugène de Méric (HTML with commentary at vlib.us)
• Front Line Surgeons: A History of the Third Auxiliary Surgical Group (c1950), by Clifford Lewis Graves (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plastic Surgery Essentials for Students (8th edition, 2012), by American Society of Plastic Surgeons (PDF files with commentary at psenetwork.org)

• Anesthesia and Perioperative Care of the Combat Casualty (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 1995), ed. by Russ Zajtchuk and Christopher M. Grande (PDF files at Borden Institute)

• A Manual of Operative Veterinary Surgery (New York: W. R. Jenkins, 1906), by Alexandre François Augustin Liautard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Abdominal Surgery on the Battle-Field (reprinted from St. Louis Clinique, June 1894), by Nicholas Senn (page images at NIH)

• Rectal and Anal Surgery, With a Full Description of the Secret Methods of the Itinerant Specialists (third edition; Chicago: W. T. Keener, 1892), by Edmund Andrews and Edward Wyllys Andrews (page images at Google)
• Treatises of Fistula in Ano, Haemorrhoids and Clysters (15th century MS translation; this edition 1910), by John Arderne, ed. by D'Arcy Power
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Die Allgemeine Chirurgie der Gehirnkrankheiten (2 volumes, in German; Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1914), ed. by Fedor Krause (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language, by William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann (HTML at williamcalvin.com)

• Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language, by William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann (HTML at williamcalvin.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.