Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590. Les Œuvres de M. Ambroise Paré, conseiller et premier chirurgien du Roy. Avec les figures & portraicts tant de l'anatomie que des instruments de chirurgie, & de plusieurs monstres. Le tout divise en vingt six livres (transl. from French: The works of Mr. Ambroise Paré, advisor and first surgeon to the King. With figures & portraits of both anatomy and surgical instruments, & several monsters. The whole is divided into twenty-six books). Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1575, the first edition. This unique book is the cornerstone that laid the foundation for modern surgery in France and the rest of Europe, the most important surgical book of the 16th century.

The training of the surgeon : the annual address in medicine delivered at Yale University, June 27, 1904 / by William Stewart Halsted. The first edition. This lecture emphasized that surgical skill must be built through rigorous, systematic training rather than quick apprenticeship. He argued for long, carefully supervised residency programs, where surgeons-in-training would gradually assume responsibility while mastering both technical skill and scientific inquiry. This lecture laid the foundation for the modern surgical residency system in the United States.

PIROGOV, Nikolay Ivanovich (1810-1881). Grundzuge der allgemeinen Kriegschirurgie nach Reminiscenzen aus den Kriegen in der Krim und im Kaukasus und aus der Hospitalpraxis (Principles of general war surgery after reminiscences from the wars in the Crimea and the Caucasus and from hospital practice), Leipzig: F.C.W. Vogel, 1864. In German language. The world's first edition

Fifty remarkable and extraordinary cures of gunshot wounds and other injuries in Pomerania, which occurred during the sieges of Wolgast, Anklam, Demmin, Stettin, Greifswald, Stralsund, and the capture of the island of Rügen, and how these were treated according to the most proper and reliable therapeutic methods and successfully cured... by Matthæus Gottfried Purmann, surgeon and city physician in Breslau... Frankfurt and Leipzig, published by Michael Rohrlach, bookseller in Liegnitz, 1693.