This auction is for an original 1888 edition of "THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION" by Charles Smart, Major and Surgeon, United States Army; under the direction of Surgeon General John Moore; printed in Washington, D.C. by the Government Printing Office.  YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK!!! It details thousands of surgical cases and diseases that occurred during the American Civil War. It includes numerous statistical summaries relating to diseases, wounds, and deaths in both the Union and Confederate armies. Most of the material was formed from the reports of U.S. medical directors, surgeons, doctors, and hospital staff. In addition to the statistical summaries, excerpts are presented from case studies of thousands of victims of disease and injury during the war. The accounts are a basic source for medical data on the War and comprise an important source of information relating to individual soldiers. The names of the surgeons who submitted these case studies are almost always included, so the books can be helpful in tracking where an individual surgeon was at various times. Hundreds of etchings, wood engravings, charts, and tables, as well as many photographs and color plates (lithographs, chromolithographs, albumen photographs, heliotypes, and woodburytypes) accompany the 989 pages of densely printed text. Almost every reproductive process available at the time can be found somewhere within this volume. This volume covers medical statistics; camp fevers [ typhus, etc.] and other miasmatic diseases; scurvy; diseases attributed to non-miasmatic exposure; and other diseases such as nostalgia, army itch, poisoning, alcoholism, and venereal diseases; Includes one small folding map.

 Published in 1888, this fascinating book is in VERY GOOD CONDITION! for its age and especially to be is 121 YEARS OLD!!! ALL PAGES ARE PRESENT!!! with no markings. This massive book weighs about 13 pounds. It measures 10" X 12" and is 3" thick. The interior is tight, bright and clean! The cosmetic appearance shows  slight shelf wear. A minor split seam is located on the upper portion of the spine. Aside from these small disclosures, this book is in very good condition for something of this age. This is a RARE!!! book that a search of the major internet book sites reveals this to be ONE OF ONLY TWO AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE!!!, of Part 3. Volume 1., at the time of this listing so...GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!!!

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