📚 Surgery

Books with surgery on their catalogue record, first published between 1478 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject surgery in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 37,238 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
	Pkg	F. A. Davis	2014	75
	De medicina	Aulus Cornelius Celsus	1478	72
	Contemporary Nutrition	Gordon M. Wardlaw	1992	58
	A synopsis of surgery	Ernest William Hey Groves	1908	23
	Short practice of surgery	Hamilton Bailey	1936	22
	Practical handbook of advanced interventional cardiology	Thach Nguyen	2000	21
	A Short Practice of Surgery	Hamilton Bailey	1932	20
	Lecture notes on general surgery	Harold Ellis	1965	20
	Complications	Atul Gawande	2002	20
	The scalpel, the sword	Ted Allan	1952	18
	A Dictionary of practical surgery	Samuel Cooper	1809	17
	Abdominal operations	Rodney Maingot	1940	12
	A dictionary of practical surgery	Samuel Cooper	1810	11
	The Closed Treatment of Common Fractures	John Charnley	1950	11
	General thoracic surgery	Thomas W. Shields	1972	11
	Pediatric surgery	Prem Puri	2005	11
	Textbook of operative surgery	Eric L. Farquharson	1954	10
	Better	Atul Gawande	2007	10
	Irreversible Damage	Abigail Shrier	2020	10
	Textbook of surgery	Frederick Christopher	1936	9
	Dentofacial deformities	Bruce N. Epker	1980	9
	Blood and guts	Richard Hollingham	2008	9
	Do No Harm	Marsh, Henry	2014	9
	Atlas of Operative Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	Christopher J. Haggerty	2015	9
	A text-book of surgery for dental students	George Percival Mills	1913	8
	Farquharson's textbook of operative general surgery	Margaret Farquharson	2005	8
	Another Day in the Frontal Lobe	Katrina Firlik	2006	8
	A textbook of surgical physiology	R. Ainslie Jamieson	1959	7
	The butchering art	Lindsey Fitzharris	2017	7
	Anatomy for surgeons	W. Henry Hollinshead	1954	6

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

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