MANN, James (“James”) (1759-1832). Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812, 13, 14. To which are added, Surgical Cases; Observations on Military Hospitals; and Flying Hospitals Attached to a Moving Army. Denham: H. Mann and Co., 1816.

8vo (237 x 145 mm). (Browning and offsetting, a few tears with minor losses to blank leaves.) Original publisher’s gray printed boards, lettering-piece printed in blue on paper, uncut and unopened (some chipping or staining).

FIRST EDITION of "the primary record of medicine during the War of 1812," (Garrison-Morton 2161.1). It contains a “Dissertation on Dysentery” which won the Boylstonian Prize Medal in 1806, as well as an observation on the Winter Epidemic of 1815-16, denominated Peripneumonia Notha, as it appears at Sharon and Rochester, State of Massachusetts. Mann served as an Army Hospital Surgeon and as a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He served three years in the American Revolution and another three years in the War of 1812. His "chapter on surgery (pages 206-33) is especially invaluable for its first-hand descriptions of the treatment of wounds" (Rutkow, The History of Surgery in the United States, GS4). Howes M-258; Garrison-Morton 2161.1.

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MANN, James (“James”) (1759-1832). Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812, 13, 14. To which are added, Surgical Cases; Observations on Military Hospitals; and Flying Hospitals Attached to a Moving Army. Denham: H. Mann and Co., 1816.