Author: WTM / Source: Neatorama
Many of the color lithographs seen on this site were created for US surgeon Joseph Pancoast’s (November 23, 1805 – March 6, 1882) 1844 book ‘A Treatise on Operative Surgery’. The blurb tells us: “A treatise on operative surgery comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations; exhibiting the state of surgical science in is present advanced…
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