Smith Henry H Md (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Paperback. 130pp. Lightly rubbed and edgeworn, else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 3rd Edition. Leather over boards, 456 pp, preface, index, 247 steel engravings. Front board missing, front fly loose, spine gone, cut punch mark at title page penetrates as small dimple to pg 19, damp stain at margin first 12 pp, damp stain at margin pg 433 to end, minor foxing, text block split at pg 264. The text block is complete and excellent white rag paper with minor foxing except for damp stains mentioned above. This is a poor/reading copy in current condition but excellent copy for rebinding. Uncommon medical text in all editions. Newshelf 19.…

Eighty plates and text illustr, 9.5 x 6, full leather; 826, 769. Covers poor, lacking one cover and spines, disbound, lower page edges stained and some of those pages (and plates) stuck together, staining, damp spotting, smudging, occasional spotting, text block cracked, loose signatures and pages, a few small tears. Well used, sold as is. FIRST ED. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Dr. Smith was appointed the surgeon general of Pennsylvania, originated the plan for the removal of the wounded from the battlefield to large hospitals in major cities, organized a corps of surgeons on steamers that were used as floating hospitals at the siege of Yorktown and tended to the wounded after various battles, i.e., Cold Harbor and Antietam. …