RT Journal
A1 Rutkow IM
T1 JOseph pancoast's a treatise on operative surgery
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 1998
FD May 1
VO 133
IS 5
SP 579
OP 579
DO 10-1001/pubs.Arch Surg.-ISSN-0004-0010-133-5-ssh0598
UL http://dx.doi.org/10-1001/pubs.Arch Surg.-ISSN-0004-0010-133-5-ssh0598
AB 
With the beginning of meaningful American contributions to surgicalliterature in the early 19th century, the manifold epic events that enlivenour country's surgical past began to receive wide dissemination. Of the varioussurgical texts published in this still preanesthetic period (ie, prior tofall 1846), the most physically impressive and artistically dazzling is JosephPancoast's (1805-1882) massive A Treatise on Operative Surgery. With 80 quarto plates comprising 486 separate illustrations and 380pages of description, the tome's most distinguishing features are the wonderfullyexecuted lithographs, many of which are from drawings of surgical operationsby Pancoast.