Adopt a Surgery book




You can support the library's conservation program by adopting one of the titles below. You will be acknowledged as the adopter of the book in our online catalogue as well as on a bookplate inside the adopted volume. Your gift will help to preserve these indispensable works of medical history for generations to come.


Surgical observations 
John Abernethy, 1829


   Awaiting adoption: $1000.00
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Lectures on the principles and practice of surgery.
Astley Cooper, 1839

   Awaiting adoption: $500.00
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A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints
Astley Cooper, 1831

   Awaiting adoption: $500.00
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The influence of physical education in producing and confirming, in females, deformity of the spine
E. W. Duffin, 1829
   Awaiting adoption: $500.00
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A general system of surgery
Laurence Heister, 1768


   Awaiting adoption: $1000.00
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A discovrse of the art of chyrvgerie
Peter Lowe, 1634


   Awaiting adoption: $500.00
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