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- [1739] (Creation)
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Item
Extent
1 vol
Scope and content
'Treatise on the operations of surgery with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them, to which is prefixed an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers. By Samuel Sharp, surgeon to Guy's Hospital.' Manuscript volume including dedication to William Cheselden, Surgeon to Chelsea Hospital; preface; contents page; thirty seven chapters on surgical procedures such as the suture of the tendons, the amputation of cancered and schorrous breast, bronchotomy, and amputation. Also contains illustrations of surgical instruments with explanation of their use and construction. 293pp Donated to the Wills Library by Dr G Newton Pitt, 5 May 1913.
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Biographical history
Born, Jamaica, about 1700; apprentice to William Cheselden, surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital, 1724-1731; spent part of his apprenticeship in France, met Voltaire, and acquired a knowledge of French surgery; freeman of the Barber-Surgeons' Company, 1731; admitted to the Barber-Surgeons' Company, 1732; Surgeon, Guy's Hospital, 1733-1757; assisted Cheselden with his Osteographia , published 1733; acquired an extensive medical practice; resigned his course of anatomical lectures to William Hunter, 1746; Fellow, Royal Society of London, 1749; member, Paris Royal Society, 1749; continued to practise until 1765; toured Italy, 1765; died, 1778. Publications include: A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery, with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them, to which is prefix'd an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers (London, 1739); A Critical Enquiry into the present state of Surgery (London, 1750); Letters from Italy, describing the customs and manners of that country, in the years 1765, and 1766. To which is annexed, an Admonition to gentlemen who pass the Alps, in their tour through Italy (printed by R Cave; sold by W Nicol, London, 1766).