James Syme - Bibliography

Bibliography

Syme's surgical writings were numerous, although the terseness of his style and directness of his method saved them from being bulky:

• A Treatise on the Excision of Diseased Joints (1831) —the celebrated ankle-joint amputation is known by his name.
• Principles of Surgery (1831 often reprinted);
• Diseases of the Rectum (1838);
• Contributions to the Pathology and Practice of Surgery (1848) —a collection of thirty-one original memoirs published in periodicals from time to time;
• Stricture of the Urethra and Fistula in Pei-ineo (1849);
• Observations in Clinical Surgery (1861);
• Excision of the Scapula (1864).