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MILITARY MEDICINE]. GROSS, Samuel David (1805-1844). A Manual of Military Surgery; or, Hints on the Emergencies of Field, Camp and Hospital Practice . Philadelphia: Lippincott 1861. 12 o. Original purple-brown ribbed cloth (embossed stamp on flyleaf, spine sunned). FIRST EDITION. A popular surgeon's manual, published a mere two months before the first Battle of Bull Run, which was widely used during the Civil War. In his dedication, Gross, a foremost surgeon of the time and founder of the American Surgical Association, expresses the hope that it will "mitigate some of the horrors of the Civil War now impending..." Norman 949. -- DELPECH, Jacques Mathieu (1777-1832). Mmoire sur la complication de plaies et des ulcres, connue sur le nom de pourriture d'hopital . Paris, 1815. 8 o. Half-title. Original gray-blue paper wrappers, uncut, (spine rebacked in paper). FIRST EDITION. Provenance : Dominique Larrey, Surgeon-in-Chief of Napoleon's Arme de l'Orient, stamped signature on title. A treatise on "humid gangrene," written in the aftermath of Napoleon's Peninsular War "as the thousands of casualties overcrowding the Montpellier hospital had provoked a severe outbreak of the disease" (Norman). Norman 617 -- TRUETA RASPALL, Jos (1897-1977). El tratamiento de las fracturas de guerra . Barcelona, 1938. 8 o. Original tan printed wrappers (slightly spotted, spine chipped), folding clamshell case. FIRST EDITION. Photographic illustrations. Trueta, director of surgery at the General Hospital of Catalua in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, describes modern procedures for treatment of gunshot wounds and compound fractures. The work was widely used by surgeons who served with the Loyalist armies. Garrison-Morton 5632; Norman 2100. -- BORDEN, William Kline (1858-1934). The Use of the Rntgen Ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the War With Spain (1898) . Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1900. 4 o. Original black cloth, gilt-blocked spine. FIRST EDITION. 38 heliotype photographic plates, text illustrations. The first treatise on the use of X-rays in military medicine, particularly for the location of lodged missles and the treatment of fractures. Garrison-Morton 2687.2; Norman 267. (4)