THE SURGICAL HISTORY OF THE NAVAL WAR BETWEEN JAPAN AND CHINA DURING 1894-95.

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Cloth shows moderate wear. Rear cover spotted and damp-stained. Free-edge of about the last half of the book shows damp-stain and red color bled from rear cover. Internally text is crisp and clean throughout with no evidence of water-staining. This rare history was translated from the original Japanese report under the direction of Baron Y. Saneyoshi, by S. Suzuki. Frontispiece photographic portrait of Baron Saneyoshi in full military uniform. Twenty-one full-page illustrations, most of which are chromolithographs. Damp-stain around periphery of several color plates near the end, but never close to the illustration. A number of black and white text illustrations and graphs. Chapters on battles and injuries, brief history of the killed and wounded, injury statistics, causes of wounds and their classification,complications of wounds, and management of the wounded. The first book documenting the treatment of the wounded on ships since the modern revolution in naval warfare. This treatise was inspired by the "Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion" following the American Civil War, with typography and illustrations in a similar style. OCLC lists only two copies worldwide in libraries. A second edition was published in 1901. NUC 0108123. 406pp. Size: Quarto. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 012145

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