2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Large Government Booklet, 9-3/4” x 12”, titled “Circular No. 6, War Department. Surgeon General’s Office, Washington, November 1, 1865, Reports on the Extent and Nature of the Materials Available for the Preparation of a Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion”, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1865. The 40pp booklet contains a detailed illustrated summary of the wartime medical and surgical data available in the Surgeon-General’s office on such topics as gunshot wounds, amputations, excisions, camp diseases, military ambulances, mortality rates from disease and injury, and hospital construction and organization. The illustrations for the Medical and Surgical History represent a landmark in American medical illustration. Loose at spine yet packed with illustrations.
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