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A course of operative surgery / with plates drawn from nature by M. Léveillé and coloured by hand under his direction ; by Christopher Heath.

Christopher Heath · 1877 · London : J. & A. Churchill, 1877. · 5 pictures

A surgical atlas by Christopher Heath, published in London by J. & A. Churchill in 1877, with plates drawn from nature by M. Léveillé and hand-coloured under his direction, made for medical students and practising surgeons. The lithographs show limbs and torsos opened in stages, numbered muscles, vessels and cross-sections, knives held by disembodied hands, and small isolated incisions floating on bare cream ground.

General Surgery

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