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The Early Military Surgery book collection is a group of 30 historic books that examine the state of the art of Military Surgery from the mid 1700s to the early 1900s. This collection is a fascinating look at how wounded military troops were treated both on the battlefield and in the operating rooms and due to its span of more than 150 years, it offers a remarkable glimpse into how techniques and knowledge changed and expanded as time went on. Several of the books are heavily illustrated.

The books in this collection are:

1. Military surgery (1863) - Williamson, George - 343 pages
2. A manual of military surgery : or, Hints on the emergencies of field, camp and hospital practice (1862) - Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David) - 103 pages
3. A practical treatise on military surgery (1861) - Hamilton, Frank Hasting - 249 pages
4. Surgery in war (1916) - Hull, Alfred John - 499 pages
5. A report of surgical cases treated in the army of the United States from 1865 to 1871 (1871) - Otis, George Alexander - 317 pages
6. Notes for army medical officers (1917) - Goodwin, T. H. (Thomas Herbert) - 120 pages
7. Injuries of joints (1916) - Jones, Robert - 202 pages
8. Notes on the surgery of the War in the Crimea, with remarks on the treatment of gunshot wounds (1858) - Macleod, George H. B. (George Husband Baird) - 459 pages
9. Fracture of the lower jaw; (1918) - Imbert, Leon; Real, Pierre - 242 pages
10. The ambulance surgeon; or, Practical observations on gunshot wounds (1862) - Appia, P. L. (P. Louis) - 288 pages
11. Surgical nursing in war (1917) - Bundy, Elizabeth Roxana - 207 pages
12. Principles of military surgery, comprising observations on the arrangement, police, and practice of hospitals, and on the history, treatment, and anomalies of variola and syphilis. Illustrated with cases and dissections (1829) - Hennen, John - 624 pages
13. Bipp treatment of war wounds (1918) - Morison, Rutherford - 79 pages
14. Wounds of the thorax in war (1915) - Murphy, James Keogh - 172 pages
15. A manual of military surgery (1863) - 367 pages
16. The treatment of fractures - Volume 1 (1918) - Leriche, Rene - 258 pages
17. The treatment of fractures - Volume 2 (1918) - Leriche, Rene - 347 pages
18. Treatise on gun-shot wounds, on inflammation, erysipelas, and mortification, on injuries of nerves, and on wounds of the extremities requiring the different operations of amputation : in which the various methods of performing these operations are shown, together with their after treatment; and containing an account of the author's successful case of amputation at the hip joint ... being a record of the opinions and practice of the Surgical Department of the British army, at the termination of the wars in Spain, Portugal, France, and the Netherlands, in 1814 and 1815 (1827) - Guthrie, G. J. (George James) - 605 pages
19. Military medical and surgical essays ; prepared for the United States Sanitary Commission (1864) - 563 pages
20. Wounds in war: the mechanism of the production and their treatment (1898) - Stevenson, William Flack - 469 pages
21. A manual of military surgery, for the use of surgeons in the Confederate States Army; with explanatory plates of all useful operations (1864) - Chisolm, Julian John - 613 pages
22. The surgeon's handbook on the treatment of wounded in war (1878) - Esmarch, Friedrich von - 399 pages
23. An epitome of practical surgery for field and hospital (1863) - Warren, Edward - 412 pages
24. Wounds of the abdomen (1918) - Abadie, Jean Baptist - 339 pages
25. Notes on military orthopaedics (1917) - Jones, Robert - 155 pages
26. Surgical experiences in South Africa 1899-1900; being mainly a clinical study of the nature and effects of injuries produced by bullets of small calibre (1913) - Makins, George Henry - 585 pages
27. Technic of the irrigation treatment of wounds by the Carrel method (1917) - Dumas, J - 113 pages
28. Military Surgery (1916) - Dunlap Pearce Penhallow - 455 pages
29. Fractures of the Orbit and Injuries to the Eye in War (1918) - Felix Lagrange - 321 pages
30. The Elements of Surgery (1746) - Samuel Mihles - 405 pages

Here are some page images from a few of the books so you can see some of the typical contents of the volumes.

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