BUCHANAN (George). A bound volume of twenty offprints (first separate printings) by this distinguished Scottish surgeon. These include his important papers on 'the excision of one lateral half of the tongue' and 'the excision of the superior maxillary bone', an early pamphlet on a operation on a hermaphrodite and his 'lithotrity, and statistics of lithotomy'.1871

 20 pamphlets bound in one, nineteenth-century buckram. George Buchanan (1827-1906), surgeon, son of Moses Steven Buchanan (1796–1860) surgeon to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and lecturer on anatomy in the Portland Street medical school from 1836 to 1841, when he was appointed professor of anatomy in the Andersonian University. George Buchanan was educated at the University of Glasgow and went on to study under his father and others at the Andersonian University, he became M.D. St. Andrews and L.R.C.S. Edinburgh, and in 1852 fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. "In early life Buchanan volunteered to have chloroform anaesthesia demonstrated on himself, when his father performed a minor operation on him. He began to practise in Glasgow, but in 1856 he went to the Crimea as a civil surgeon. He returned to Glasgow at the end of the war, and was one of the first to practise there purely as a consulting surgeon. In 1860, when he succeeded his father as professor of anatomy in the Andersonian University, he was also appointed surgeon to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He soon became known as a bold and skilful operator, and as a good teacher. He was the first to point out (in 1865 and 1867) the possibility and safety of removing half the tongue in cases of cancer, and he was among the first surgeons to remove the upper jaw (in 1864 and 1869). He gave reasons for preferring lithotrity to lithotomy in operating for stone in the adult male, in 1868, and he was the first to perform ovariotomy successfully in the west of Scotland, in 1863."—(Oxford DNB). 1. Abstract of a Lecture on he Operation of Tracheotomy. 1871. 7pp. 2. Case of Acute Foetid Emphyema, Treated by Incision into Pleural Cavity. 1883. 4pp. 3. Case of a Hermaphrodite, Aged Nine Years, with the External Appearance of a Female; in whom both Testicles were Removed from the Labia Majora. [1885]. 4pp. 4. Case of Traumatic Femoral Aneurism. 1862. 7pp. 5. Cases of Tracheotomy in Croup and Diphtheria. 1864. 7pp. 6. Clinical Lecture on the Radical Cure of Hernia. 1878. 8pp. 7. Clinical Surgery. 1883. 19pp. 8. Clinical Surgical Report. 1871. 16pp. 9. Cyst of Fibula (Serous)—Excision of Upper Half of Fibula. 1882. 3pp. 10. On Excision of Isolated Bones of the Tarsus, Preserving a Useful Foot. 1877. 8pp. 11. Excision of One Lateral Half of the Tongue. 1865. 6pp. 12. Excision of the Superior Maxillary Bone. 1869. 6pp. 13. On Healing by Faith, with Reference to a Visit to the Gotto of Lourdes. 1885. 8pp. 14. Lithotrity, and Statistics of Lithotomy. 1880. 16pp. 15. Operation for the Radical Cure of Congenital Inguinal Hernia in the Child. 1879. 7pp. 16. On the Radical Cure of Artificial Anus, Dupuytren's Enterotome, and Subsequent Plastic Operation. 1879. 8pp. 17. Surgical Cases in Private and Hospital Practice. 1862. 8pp. 18. Talipes Varus: Its Pathology and Treatment. 1880. 15pp. 19. Tracheotomy in Croup and Diphtheria. 1863. 13pp. 20. On Tracheotomy in Diphtheria. 1865. 7pp. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.