Modern surgery, general and operative / by John Chalmers DaCosta.
A one-volume surgical textbook by Philadelphia surgeon John Chalmers DaCosta, issued by W.B. Saunders in 1914 for medical students and practising surgeons. The line drawings show operative steps and anatomical cross-sections in sparse pen hatching on tinted stock \u2014 hands holding tissue, suture lines, clamped vessels \u2014 giving designers stark, diagrammatic bodies and instrument forms with wide areas of open paper.
