English

Plain concise practical remarks, on the treatment of wounds and fractures; : to which is added, An appendix, on camp and military hospitals; principally designed, for the use of young military and naval surgeons, in North-America.

114, [2], p. ; 21 cm. (8vo) · Originally published New York, 1775 · "A new edition ... " (advertisement, p. 164, in Swieten, Gerard, Freiherr van. The diseases incident to armies. Philadelphia, 1776) · Signatures: [A]⁴ B² C-P⁴ ([A]1 verso, P4 verso blank) · One of two states known; the present state has p. [2] at end blank, while the other state has an advertisement for Robert Bell's medical books on that page · "Appendix, containing, some short hints on the structure and economy of hospitals; particularly applied to military ones: With the general means of preserving health in an army. (p. [101]-114). "... the first American work on military medicine." -- Garrison-Morton · Work often bound with: Swieten, Gerard, Freiherr van. The diseases incident to armies. Philadelphia, 1776

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