8vo (184 x 120 mm). (Text browned and spotted as usual., a few leaves dampstained in upper margin) Original publisher's embossed purple cloth (spine soiled, some wear). Provenance: Dr. Clement Coote Speiden (1833-1898), Medical Director and Surgeon of the Costa Rican Railroad, Atlantic Division (signature dated 1862 on title). 

 

Second edition of Chisolm's RARE CONFEDERATE SURGICAL MANUAL. The appendix includes tables and forms to report: the return of medical and hospital property; to account for clothing, arms, and equipment; to record the examination of recruits; as well as to record the sick and the wounded, discharges, and deaths. Harwell, The Confederate Hundred 10. 

 

Property from the collection of Dr. B. Herold Griffith, Evanston, Illinois