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Paperback. Condition: Fine condition. First Edition (No Additional Printings). Morristown, New Jersey:: Morristown Memorial Hospital, 1976. No owner's name. Pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked. Photo illustrated exhibition catalogue of medical and surgical equipment typical of that used during the War for Independence. Includes a pill roller, bleeding bowl (graduated to measure ounces of blood), multi-blade lancet, catlen, amputation knife and saw, tenaculum, bullet extractor, seton needle, trepanning instrument, turnkey (to extract teeth), ear syringe, etc. Bound in the original pale yellow pictorial wraps. From the introduction: "The eve of the Revolution saw medicine practiced by physicians the majority of whom were unlicensed and untrained. Only two medical schools existed in America before the outbreak of fighting.". First Edition (No Additional Printings). Soft cover pamphlet. Fine condition. 16pp.