Handbuch der plastischen Chirurgie. Nebst einer Vorrede von J.F. Dieffenbach.

In this work Zeis introduced the term “plastic surgery”. The first half of the work covers the general principles of plastic surgery, and the first history of the subject. The second half describes the special operative techniques required for the individual parts of the body. Annotated English translation by T.J.S. Patterson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988. See No. 5767.