📚 Operative Surgical Procedures

Books with operative surgical procedures on their catalogue record, first published between 1783 and 2011, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject operative surgical procedures in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,257 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
	A system of surgery	Bell, Benjamin	1783	21
	Lecture notes on general surgery	Harold Ellis	1965	20
	A system of surgery	Timothy Holmes	1860	19
	A text-book of obstetrics	Barton Cooke Hirst	1898	18
	The principles and practice of modern surgery	Robert Druitt	1842	17
	Surgery for nurses	James Moroney	1950	13
	"Speaking of operations--"	Irvin S. Cobb	1915	12
	Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Chirurgie zum Gebrauche für Ärzte und Studierende	Erich Lexer	1904	11
	Pediatric surgery	Prem Puri	2005	11
	The science and art of surgery	John Eric Erichsen	1854	10
	Atlas und Grundriss der chirurgischen Operationslehre	Otto Zuckerkandl	1897	10
	Textbook of operative surgery	Eric L. Farquharson	1954	10
	The institutes and practice of surgery	Gibson, William	1824	9
	Abdominal operations ..	Moynihan, Berkeley Moynihan Baron	1905	9
	Traité de pathologie externe et de médecine opératoire: avec des résumés d'anatomie des tissus ..	Auguste-Théodore Vidal	1851	8
	Chirurgische Operationslehre	Theodor Kocher	1895	8
	Farquharson's textbook of operative general surgery	Margaret Farquharson	2005	8
	Hospital surgery	Omer Aziz	2008	8
	Elements of surgery	Robert Liston	1831	7
	A manual of operative surgery	Lewis Atterbury Stimson	1878	7
	Lehrbuch der speciellen Chirurgie für Aerzte und studirende	Franz König	1881	7
	Lehrbuch der Chirurgie und Operationslehre	Eduard Albert	1881	7
	Lehrbuch der Chirurgie	Carl Garrè	1920	7
	Hamilton Bailey's Emergency Surgery	Hamilton Bailey	1967	7
	Current Surgical Therapy	John L. Cameron	1986	7
	Lecture Notes	Harold Ellis	2011	7
	Surgery	William Johnson Walsham	1887	6
	Chirurgische Operationslehre	Theodor Kocher	1892	6
	Introduction to operating-room technique	Edna Cornelia Berry	1955	6
	Operative orthopaedics	Willis C. Campbell	1963	6

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

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