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réf. 51309 — Illustrated by Mildred B. Codding. New York : The Macmillan Company 1939. First edition. Folio. publisher's gilt-lettered cloth lightly rubbed pp. x; ii; 181; blank illustrated with 84 black and white plates of the human anatomy and surgical procedures internally clean a fine copy. Cutler and Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations is considered one of the most influential textbooks in medical history. Devised to standardise surgical procedures for postgraduate medical students in the 1930s it transformed how surgical education is taught and practiced globally and has never been out of print. 'Now in its 11th edition this gold-standard reference for learning how to perform the most common surgical procedures has been renamed Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations. Replete with many more chapters illustrations and procedures including laparoscopic and robotic it also has been published in several languages . The target audience of that first atlas was not only practicing surgeons and trainees but also general practitioners who were still performing operations .' - American College of Surgeons https://www.facs.org/for-medical-professionals/news-publications/news-and-articles/bulletin/2023/january-2023-volume-108-issue-1/atlas-is-still-embraced-after-more-than-80-years/ One of the noteworthy aspects of the Atlas is the large folio format which permitted multiple illustrations by Codding to illustrated the details of the procedures which are described on the facing pages. Her diagrams were so clear and effective they were retained for all of the first 10 editions added to by supporting artists as new procedures were included in subsequent editions until the 11th edition of 2022 when the original hand-drawn diagrams were replaced with digital illustrations by Anthony Baker CMI. Â hardcover