Sir Philip Crampton - bibliography

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Biography

Irish surgeon, born June 7, 1777, Dublin; died June 10, 1858.

Bibliography

  • An essay on the entropeon, or inversion of the eyelids.
    London, 1805. 2nd edition 1896.
  • An account of a new method of operating for the cure of external aneurism; . . . . experiments illustrative of the effects of the different methods of procuring the obliteration arteries.
    Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, London, 1816, VII.
  • Th. Goodisson:
    Beobachtungen einer verschlossenen Aorte, mitgetheilt von Crampton: Dublin Hospital reports u. s. w., Dublin 1818, p. 194 ff.
    Deutsches Archiv für die Physiologie, Halle and Berlin, 1820, 6: 208-215.
  • August Hirsch, publisher:
    Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker.
    Urban & Schwarzenberg. 2nd edition. Berlin, 1929. Volume 2, page 137.

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