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A TREATISEONFRACTURES, LUXATIONS,AND OTHERAFFECTIONS OF THE BONES,
ARE STATED AND EXEMPLIFIED.
LATE IMPROVEMENTS IN SURGERY.
1805.
District of Pennsylvania, to wit:
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twentiethday of February, in the twenty-ninth year of the independenceof the United States of America, A. D. 1805,Charles Caldwell, M. D. of the said district, hath deposited inthis Office, the Title of a Book, the Right whereof he claimsas proprietor, in the words following to wit:
“A Treatise on Fractures, Luxations, and other Affectionsof the Bones, by P. J. Desault, surgeon in chief to the Hotel-Dieuof Paris, wherein his Opinions and Practice, in suchcases, are stated and exemplified. Edited by Xav. Bichat;with Plates. Translated from the French, by Charles Caldwell,M. D. With Notes, and an Appendix containing severallate improvements in surgery.”
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States,intituled, “An act for the encouragement of learning, by securingthe copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietorsof such copies during the times therein mentioned:”And also to the act, entitled, “An act supplementary to an act,entitled, “An act for the encouragement of learning, by securingthe copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietorsof such copies during the times therein mentioned,” andextending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engravingand etching historical and other prints.”
D. CALDWELL,
Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.