New elements of operative surgery / by Alf. A.L.M. Velpeau, carefully revised, entirely remodelled, and augmented with a treatise on minor surgery ; illustrated by over 300 engravings, incorporated with the text, accompanied with an atlas in quarto of twenty-two plates, representing the principal operative processes, surgical instruments ; translated by P.S. Townsend. Augmented by the addition of several hundred pages of entirely new matter, comprising all the latest improvements and discoveries in surgery, in America and Europe, up to the present time. Under the supervision of, and with notes and observations by Valentine Moth.

  • Velpeau, A. (Alfred), 1795-1867.
Date:
1845-1847
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Credit: New elements of operative surgery / by Alf. A.L.M. Velpeau, carefully revised, entirely remodelled, and augmented with a treatise on minor surgery ; illustrated by over 300 engravings, incorporated with the text, accompanied with an atlas in quarto of twenty-two plates, representing the principal operative processes, surgical instruments ; translated by P.S. Townsend. Augmented by the addition of several hundred pages of entirely new matter, comprising all the latest improvements and discoveries in surgery, in America and Europe, up to the present time. Under the supervision of, and with notes and observations by Valentine Moth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    should be mutually acceptable to both,) of recalling to mind the years of unalloyed gratification which I enjoyed in the society of yourself and my other friends, during my residence in your justly renowned capital. With every consideration of professional respect and personal esteem, I am, my dear sir, your devoted friend, V. MOTT. P. S. As anxious inquiries are made here, be pleased to inform me when you contemplate a new edition of your Anatomie Chirurgicale. To M. VELPEA U, Professor, &rc, Paris. (translation.) TO DR. VALENTINE MOTT, NEW YORK. My very distinguished Friend, I have learned, with very great pleasure, that a complete translation of my work on operative surgery is to appear at New York, under your able supervision ; in associating your nu- merous labors with mine, in selecting this translation as a repository for all the discoveries and improvements which you have intro- duced into surgical practice, you will obviously make my work an important treatise, of unquestionable utility, for our old Europe especially, where your labors, in spite of my efforts, are still but imperfectly known. If your characteristic modesty induces you to suppose that my work may serve as a passport to your name, you will permit me to add, with greater exactness, that my feeble authority will be more than doubly enhanced by being sustained upon your high repu- tation. Thus assured of being put in possession of all your labors, of being enabled to consult them every day and on every occasion, I myself shall enjoy the pleasure of having it in my power to repro- duce them in our own tongue, and in a shape perfectly authentic, both for students and for practitioners. Persuaded that I have assembled in my work almost the entire amount of scientific and practical details, indispensable for those who have occasion to consult a didactic treatise on operative sur- gery, I feel no hesitation in saying, that your proposed publication will assist in rendering this branch of human knowledge popular