BUTCHER, Essays and Reports on Operative and Conservative Surgery, 1865

ESSAYS AND REPORTS ON OPERATIVE AND CONSERVATIVE SURGERY. BY RICHARD G. BUTCHER. SURGEON AND LECTURER ON CLINICAL SURGERY TO MERCER'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN; FELLOW, LICENTIATE, AND MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND; HONORARY M.D. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN ENGLAND; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY LATE CHAIRMAN OF THE SURGICAL COURT OF EXAMINERS IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND; ETC., ETC., ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY SIXTY-TWO LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, COLORED AND PLAIN; AND SEVERAL ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD. DUBLIN: FANNIN AND COMPANY, 41, GRAFTON-STREET. LONDON: ROBERT HARDWICKE. 1865
 
Original red cloth over boards, newly rebacked with gold text and bands on spine. A few minor bumps, rubs, and small stains on boards. Original yellow end papers. A few early pen and pencil marks on prelims. Library stamp on title, pg 1, and rear of each plate; otherwise clean, bright, and tight throughout. 62 plates.
 
Not in Garrison-Morton, Waller, Thornton, or Heirs.
 
FFep, half title, frontis, full title - viii, 933, blank, rfep.
“Richard Butcher, who developed the ‘Butcher's saw’ in 1851 for use in orthopaedics” (RCSI pioneers, the RCSI website)
“Early in his career, and for many subsequent years, Mr Butcher excited the admiration of medical students by exhibitions of his muscular development. He was wont to roll up his shirt-sleeves before operating, thereby exposing to view biceps of much more than average proportions. His dark complexion, well-oiled, raven-black, long hair and good features rendered his appearance remarkable.” (Cameron’s History of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)
“One case, described in 1874, was: a "terrible deformity from a badly-united fracture of the thigh-bone, in which the limb was five inches shorter than its fellow, in a sailor 20 years of age. To remedy this, Mr Butcher devised a surgical clamp to re-fracture the thigh-bone, which was accomplished under chloroform, without damage to the soft parts. The limb was forcibly extended, and so admirably adjusted that its length was maintained until callus was thrown out in abundance, ultimately to effect a complete and satisfactory cure." (The Irish Times, Surgery in the 19th century, Aug 22, 2019)