Notes on the Surgery of the War in the Crimea, with Remarks on the Treatment of Gunshot Wounds.

Published by Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott/ London: John Churchill, 1862.

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xii, 403 pp. Original cloth. Small tears at top & bottom of the spine. Corners of covers slightly bent and worn. Upper blank corners of pages creased in the second half of the book. Good. First American Edition (originally published in London in 1858). "Macleod began his medical studies at Glasgow and continued them at London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna before returning to complete his degree at Glasgow in 1853. Following service in the Crimean War, he practiced in Glasgow, was professor of surgery in Anderson's College and succeeded Lister in the chair of surgery at Glasgow in 1869. He wrote the present work following his experiences in the Crimean War as a surgeon in the Civil Hospital at Smyrna and the General Hospital established at Sebastopol. The book first appeared in 1858 at London and has here been published for the first time in the United States. In the Preface Macleod remarked that 'No account of the surgical results of the war in the Crimea has yet appeared. . . . These being written hurriedly from camp, were of course unrevised by the writer when going through the press, hence the existence in them of many errors. . . .' He also stated that 'this great war has, unfortunately, added little to our medical knowledge. Its short duration prevented this; yet it has shown us wounds of a severity, perhaps, never before equaled; it has enabled us to observe the effects of missiles introduced for the first time into warfare. . .' (Preface, p. vii). Macleod discusses the geography and climatology of the Crimea, military hygiene in the field, the use of chloroform as an anesthetic, and the various wounds and injuries common on the battlefield, especially gunshot wounds" ((Heirs of Hippocrates 1933).

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Title
Notes on the Surgery of the War in the Crimea, with Remarks on the Treatment of Gunshot Wounds.
Author
MACLEOD,George H. B.
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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott/ London: John Churchill, 1862.
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Hardcover
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