Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1942

WILLIAM ALEXANDER HAMMOND (1828-1900) Military medical and surgical essays. J. B. Lippincott 1864 viii, [9]-552 pp., illus. 22.1 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1941

Hammond commented in the Preface that "The essays which are contained in the present volume were prepared, under the auspices of the United States Sanitary Commission, by gentlemen selected for their presumed acquaintance with the subjects upon which they were desired to write, and were originally published as separate monographs for gratuitous distribution to the medical officers of the army." This was done in order to meet the need for information on military medicine that was not then available in the literature. The essays met with such success that Hammond, as surgeon-general, published them in book form. The subjects of the seventeen essays range from general rules for preserving military health to venereal disease. The contributors include Hammond, Flint (see No. 1779 ff.), Mott (see No. 1418), Stillé (see No. 1809), Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1826-1879), Richard Manning Hodges (1827-1896), John Hooker Packard (1832-1907), Stephen Smith (see No. 1910), and William Holme Van Buren (1819-1883). The frontispiece portrait, usually present, is lacking in this copy.

See Related Record(s): 1779 1418 1809 1910