BARNES JOSEPH K editor The Medical and Surgical History of t

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BARNES, JOSEPH K., editor. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. 3 (of 6) volumes: Surgical History only. Numerous plates, including chromolithographs, tinted lithographs, and mounted Woodburytypes from photographs; maps and charts; profusion of text illustrations. 4to, original cloth, spine ends worn, hinges split, Volume 3 spine discolored; contents generally clean, a few plates loose. Washington, 1870-77-83

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first edition; second issue of Volume 2. " . . . one of the most remarkable works ever published on military medicine" (Garrison-Morton), also noteworthy for incorporating photography and photo-mechanical reproduction on a scale then unprecedented in the history of medical illustration. Garrison-Morton 2171; also 5185 (J. J. Woodward's classic study of diarrhea and dysentery, constituting the whole of Medical Volume 2); Rutkow GS68; see The Truthful Lens 175.