Plastic surgery : its principles and practice.

With 864 illustrations containing 1637 figures. Philadelphia : P. Blakiston’s Son & Co. 1919. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered burgundy cloth, spine slightly sunned, contemporary booksellers label of Angus & Robertson, Sydney, to front pastedown, pp. xv; [blank]; 770, extensively illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams, edges and preliminaries slightly foxed, a very good copy.

“Davis was the first surgeon to limit his work exclusively to plastic surgery. This was the first comprehensive textbook on the subject.” – Garrison & Morton’s Medical Bibliography 5757.4.

‘Davis was born in Virginia on January 15, 1872 and was named after his grandfather who was surgeon during Civil War. After completing his surgery training, Davis became the first American to limit his practice to plastic surgery, and, in addition, he did research at Hopkins, published a number of experimental papers and taught at the now defunct Women’s Medical College in Baltimore. Davis served as a captain in the US Army from 1917 to 1919 but never saw service overseas. He wrote Plastic Surgery Its Principles and Practice during this time and it was published in 1919 when he was 42 years old.’ – extracted from A critical comparison of Davis’ Principles of Plastic Surgery with Gillies’ Plastic Surgery of the face by M. Felix Freshwate https://www.jprasurg.com/article/S1748-6815(10)00134-8/fulltext

A foundation textbook on plastic surgery.