Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812, 13, 14. To Which Is Added, Surgical Cases; Observations on Military Hospitals; and Flying Hospitals Attached to a Moving Army. Also, An Appendix, Comprising a Dissertation on Dysentery; Which Obtained the Boylstonian Prize Medal for the Year 1800; And Observations on the Winter Epidemic of 1815-16, Denominated Peripneumonia Notha; As It Appeared at Sharon and Rochester, State of Massachusetts.
first edition
1816 · Dedham
by Mann, James.
Dedham: Printed by H. Mann and Co., 1816. First Edition. Octavo, bound in modern cloth-backed marbled boards (hardcover), uncut, 317, [i] pp. Howes M258. “The primary record of medicine during the War of 1812.” – Garrison & Morton (5th) 2161.1. The book bears the ownership signatures of John Whitridge (1793-1878), a practicing medical doctor in Baltimore, and a later 19th century medical doctor, John W. Partridge. Very Good; the book shows old damp-staining and some toning; the final leaf (pp. 317-18) has been professionally repaired. (Inventory #: 5778fd)