📚 General Surgery

Books with general surgery on their catalogue record, first published between 1478 and 2008, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject general surgery in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,858 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	De medicina	Aulus Cornelius Celsus	1478	72
	A synopsis of surgery	Ernest William Hey Groves	1908	23
	Short practice of surgery	Hamilton Bailey	1936	22
	A Short Practice of Surgery	Hamilton Bailey	1932	20
	Lecture notes on general surgery	Harold Ellis	1965	20
	Complications	Atul Gawande	2002	20
	A system of surgery	Timothy Holmes	1860	19
	A Dictionary of practical surgery	Samuel Cooper	1809	17
	The principles and practice of modern surgery	Robert Druitt	1842	17
	MRCS Picture Questions	Tjun Tang	2006	14
	A dictionary of practical surgery	Samuel Cooper	1810	11
	Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Chirurgie zum Gebrauche für Ärzte und Studierende	Erich Lexer	1904	11
	The science and art of surgery	John Eric Erichsen	1854	10
	Better	Atul Gawande	2007	10
	A treatise on the operations of surgery	Samuel Sharp	1740	9
	Manual of surgery	Alexis Thomson	1904	9
	Textbook of surgery	Frederick Christopher	1936	9
	Blood and guts	Richard Hollingham	2008	9
	The principles of surgery	James Syme	1831	8
	A text-book of surgery for dental students	George Percival Mills	1913	8
	Bethune	Roderick Stewart	1973	8
	100 Cases in Surgery	James Gossage	2007	8
	The principles of surgery	James Syme	1831	7
	The surgeon's vade mecum	Robert Druitt	1847	7
	The science and art of surgery	John Eric Erichsen	1854	7
	The science and art of surgery	John Erichsen	1860	7
	Lehrbuch der Chirurgie	Ludwig Wullstein	1908	7
	A textbook of surgical physiology	R. Ainslie Jamieson	1959	7
	Great ideas in the history of surgery	Leo M. Zimmerman	1961	7
	Recent advances in surgery	Colin D. Johnson	1992	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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