Commentaries on the Surgery of the War in Portugal, Spain, France, and the Netherlands

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Title continues; "From the Battle of Rolica, in 1808, to that of Waterloo, in 1815; With additions relating to those in the Crimea in 1854-1855. Showing the improvements made durin g and since that period in the great art and science of surgery on all the subjects to which they relate. Revised to October, 1855." Thirty lectures plus an addenda with reports from Crimea. George James Guthrie's book was quickly printed from the London 1855 edition for use by surgeons in the US Civil War. Lecture I is about gunshot and bayonet wounds, which few physicians had dealt with prior to the war. Show more