Book, medical textbook. A Complete Treatise on Gangrene and Sphacelus; with a new method of Amputation. By Silvester (sic, Sylvester) O'Halloran, Surgeon. 1765. Foreword dated 30:10:1765, at Limerick. Printed for Paul Vaillant, Bookseller in the Strand, London. Contains an Appendix, 'Proposals for the ADVANCEMENT of SURGERY in IRELAND', presented to Lucius O'Brien, MP for Ennis. Handwritten note on first page states that the proposals led to the foundation of The Royal college of Surgeons in Dublin. Original Binding.