Notes on the Surgery of the War in the Crimea, with Remarks on the Treatment of Gunshot Wounds
first edition Original publisher's cloth.
1862 · Philadelphia
by Macleod, George H.B
Philadelphia: J B Lippincott, 1862. First American Edition.. Original publisher's cloth.. Very good; some minor scrapes/punctures to the cloth; an appealing copy.. 8vo, xii, [13] - 403 pp.
The book was published in America as part of the Union effort to provide up-to-date medical references for surgeons. It was also printed in Richmond by the Confederacy the same year. It covers the history & physical characteristics of the Crimea, climate & geology, vegetation, resources & material on the natives and their diseases; water supply and drainage of the Allies' camp; health & diseases of the soldiers, hospitals, nursing, male & female, transport; the Bulgarian campaign; character of the military and their peculiar wounds, especially gunshot; use of chloroform; wounds in various parts of the human body; amputation and excision of joints. There is an appendix with other notes, tables; reports from the French & British governments from their war experience. Sir George Husband Baird Macleod (1828 - 1892) British surgeon, "... after graduating MD from Glasgow University in 1853, Macleod set out on a yachting tour, during which he made an unsuccessful attempt to reach the Crimea. However, following a personal request from Mrs. Campbell of Garscube, whose son George had been wounded in the fighting, Macleod succeeded in reaching the Crimea, where he rescued Campbell; he then transferred him to hospital in Scutari and later accompanied him home. Macleod then met the minister of war and informed him of the conditions he had experienced in the Crimea. He soon afterwards volunteered as a civil surgeon and on 25 February 1854 was appointed surgeon-in-charge and superintendent of the civil hospital at Smyrna." Oxford DNB (on-line); Wangansteen, pp. 505-507. (Inventory #: 21080)
The book was published in America as part of the Union effort to provide up-to-date medical references for surgeons. It was also printed in Richmond by the Confederacy the same year. It covers the history & physical characteristics of the Crimea, climate & geology, vegetation, resources & material on the natives and their diseases; water supply and drainage of the Allies' camp; health & diseases of the soldiers, hospitals, nursing, male & female, transport; the Bulgarian campaign; character of the military and their peculiar wounds, especially gunshot; use of chloroform; wounds in various parts of the human body; amputation and excision of joints. There is an appendix with other notes, tables; reports from the French & British governments from their war experience. Sir George Husband Baird Macleod (1828 - 1892) British surgeon, "... after graduating MD from Glasgow University in 1853, Macleod set out on a yachting tour, during which he made an unsuccessful attempt to reach the Crimea. However, following a personal request from Mrs. Campbell of Garscube, whose son George had been wounded in the fighting, Macleod succeeded in reaching the Crimea, where he rescued Campbell; he then transferred him to hospital in Scutari and later accompanied him home. Macleod then met the minister of war and informed him of the conditions he had experienced in the Crimea. He soon afterwards volunteered as a civil surgeon and on 25 February 1854 was appointed surgeon-in-charge and superintendent of the civil hospital at Smyrna." Oxford DNB (on-line); Wangansteen, pp. 505-507. (Inventory #: 21080)