A Treatise on Gunshot Wounds, (1863, 2nd edition); by Thomas Longmore, M.D., U. S. Army Medical Department issue.

A copy of this text book is listed in the 1865 Surgeon General’s Office Library Catalogue and the list of medical textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army Medical Department.

“Authorized and adopted by the Surgeon General of the United States Army for the use of surgeons in the field and general hospitals.”

Brown pebbled cloth over boards, “U. S. Army Medical Department” stamped on front cover in gold gilt lettering, list of authorized medical books and military publications by J. B. Lippincott & Co. on front and rear endpapers, 132 pages + [12 pages advertisements]; covers gunshot wounds in general, definition of the term, history of the surgery of gunshot wounds, varieties of gunshot wounds, form and nature of missile, lodgment of balls, diagnostic symptoms, prognosis of gunshot wounds, treatment of gunshot wounds in general, gunshot wounds in special regions of the body, gunshot wounds to the head, spine, face, chest, heart, neck, abdomen, and extremities; amputation, wounds of nerves, anesthesia and more, including numerous examples from previous conflicts.

Condition Fair to Good as depicted without missing pages, note bumped corners.