Item of the Day: Bell’s System of Operative Surgery (1816)

Full Title: A System of Operative Surgery, founded on the Basis of Anatomy. By Charles Bell. The Second American, from the last London Edition. Vol. I. Hartford: Printed by George Goodwin and Sons, 1816.
PREFACE.
WHEN a Surgeon first takes the knife in his hand, and is preparing, with oppressive feelings, to perform an operation which may [...]