Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1843. First American edition. Hardcover. Lg. 8vo. xvi,[17],18-629,[12],[1]pp. Contemporary leather binding. Written on the art of surgery, Fergusson discusses the elements of practical surgery in five parts: practical surgery, superior extremity, inferior extremity, head and neck, and chest, abdomen, and pelvis. He invented the term "conservative..... More