Civil War Medical Book – Hip Joint Amputations / SOLD

Civil War Medical Book – Hip Joint Amputations - Inventory Number: MED 234 / SOLD

First edition, rare, Civil War, medical book, entitled a report on amputations at the hip joint in military surgery printed in 1867 in Washington by the Government Printing Office, 1867. 87 pages including in-text illustrations, plus nine plates (five of them chromolithographs). Very clean and bright. Very good. 

A fascinating and detailed look at the subject of amputations at the hip joint in military surgery, a field in which experience and knowledge grew by leaps and bounds thanks to the violence of the American Civil War. The findings in this volume are culled from the detailed records of more than fifty such operations conducted during the war. Two of the illustrations depict men in their uniforms, one from the Union and one from the Confederacy. Beginning with a general history of the subject before moving on to case studies from the Civil War, this report was published as part of Joseph Barnes' six- volume work, THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. The plates were executed by Julius Bien, F. Moras, and L.N. Rosenthal. Rare.

Inventory Number: MED 234 / SOLD