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Hardcover, brown cloth boldly lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s unpriced and non-clipped dust-jacket. 148 pages. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with period photographs. First edition, first printing with no additional printings listed on copyright page and unpriced dust-jacket as per publisher’s practice. Personalized previous owner’s book-plate inside front cover. An excellent introduction to the medical history of the Civil War, examining the infrastructure, administration and available science employed by both Union and Confederate armies, with an emphasis on the former. In addition to chronicling the struggles faced by wartime physicians, Brooks also gives an overview of the prevailing 19th-century knowledge base regarding disease, pharmacology, and surgical procedures. A clean, fresh, tight and unmarked copy. Fine in a very good dust-jacket.