📚 Surgical Instruments

The toolkit on the tray: forceps, scalpel and retractor, their makers, and the craft of the operation.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject surgical instruments in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. 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
	A treatise on the operations of surgery	Samuel Sharp	1739	17
	Chirurgie	Lorenz Heister	1739	15
	The first lines of the practice of surgery	Samuel Cooper	1808	12
	A catalogue of surgical instruments manufactured and supplied by Matthews Brothers	Matthews Brothers	1874	11
	A treatise on the operations of surgery	Samuel Sharp	1740	9
	Specification of Alexander Melville Clark	Alexander Melville Clark	1868	9
	A catalogue of surgical instruments	Arnold & Sons	1876	9
	A realistic universe	John Elof Boodin	1916	9
	Illustrated catalogue of surgical instruments and appliances	Caswell, Hazard & Co	1874	6
	A system of surgery	Benjamin Bell	1785	4
	Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times	John Stewart Milne	1907	4
	Illustrations of surgical treatment, instruments and appliances	Eric L. Farquharson	1939	4
	Instrumentation for the Operating Room	Shirley M. Tighe	2003	4
	Manuel du chirurgien-d'armée, ou Instruction de chirurgie-militaire sur le traitement des plaies, & spécialement de celles d'armes à feu	Percy, Pierre-François baron	1792	3
	Die Beschneidung vom historischen, kritischen und medicinischen Standpunkt	Joseph Bergson	1844	3
	Specification of Henry Joseph Francis Hubert Foveaux	Henry Joseph Francis Hubert Foveaux	1861	3
	The American armamentarium chirurgicum	George Tiemann & Co.	1879	3
	History and Evolution of Surgical Instruments	C. J. S. Thompson	1942	3
	Illustrations of surgical treatment	Eric L. Farquharson	1942	3
	Nouveau traité des instrumens de chirurgie les plus utiles ...	René-Jacques Croissant de Garengeot	1727	2
	Theoretisch-praktisches Handbuch der allgemeinen und besondern chirurgischen Instrumenten- und Verbandlehre	Franz Andreas Ott	1834	2
	A catalogue of surgical instruments, apparatus, appliances, etc	John Weiss & Son (London, England)	1863	2
	Arsenal de la chirurgie contemporaine	Gustave Gaujot	1867	2
	Compendium der chirurgischen Instrumenten-Verband-und operationslehre	Carl Heitzmann	1874	2
	New inventions in surgical mechanisms	Richard Davy	1875	2
	Catalogue of surgical & orthopaedic instruments manufactured and sold by Krohne & Sesemann	Krohne & Sesemann	1878	2
	Das chirurgische Nähmaterial	Rudolf Morgenstern	1880	2
	Catalogue of surgical instruments	Arnold & Sons.	1885	2
	Handy guide to surgical instruments and medical appliances, physical and physiological apparatus, microscopes, spectacles, artificial eyes, etc., etc	Reynolds & Branson	1887	2
	Illustrated catalogue and price list of surgical instruments, spectacles, eyeglasses, optical goods, orthopaedical apparatus, trusses, supporters, etc. etc	Reynders, John, & Co., New York	1889	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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