A Treatise on Gunshot Wounds

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1178 copies of Longmore's book were purchased during the US Civil War for distribution to Union surgeons at field hospitals (History of the National Library of Medicine p. 18). The book originally appeared as a chapter in vol. II of T. Holmes (ed.) "A System of Surgery: Theoretical and Practical in Treatises by Various Authors." Longmore expanded his treatise into a larger work in 1877. 12 p. of publisher's ads at rear and ads on endpapers. Show more