Sounds interesting to me, but then I have worked surgery in the past.  Ruth



At 5:46 PM -0500 12/8/05, [log in to unmask] wrote:
....for that special someone this Christmas:



<http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=560034386&searchurl=tn%3Dsabre%2Bmusket%26sortby%3D2>MUSKET-BALL
AND SABRE INJURIES FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY M. H.
Kaufman
Bookseller:
<http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=560034386&tab=1&searchurl=tn%3Dsabre%2Bmusket%26sortby%3D2>Naval
and Military Press Ltd
(Uckfield, East Sussex, UK, United Kingdom)






Price: US$ 80.43

Book Description: 255pp, hb. Musket-ball and Sabre Injuries covers a
fascinating aspect of military surgical history; the injuries and
fatalities caused by musket-balls and sabres of the early nineteenth
century, and their treatment by military surgeons.

 The best (only) book of its kind, October 3, 2003
Reviewer: A reader from UK Kaufman and Carswell have written a book that is
breathtaking in its scope and depth. The book explores case studies and
specimens from the battlefields of the early nineteenth century and
describes both the types of injuries and their treatment in astounding
detail. Although aimed at the specialist in military history, military
surgery and medical history, the book is a fascinating read for anyone
interested in war and the history of war, as beyond the mass of technical
information one can begin to understand the lives (and deaths) of those
described, and something of the horror of the everyday lives of soldiers on
the front. My friends, keen battle reenacters, read the book agog, whilst
their girlfriends, wives and partners gagged at the painful clarity of the
illustrations and photographs. The production quality is so high that it is
not surprising that the book is published by the Royal College of Surgeons
of Edinburgh - no mainstream publisher would have had the courage to print
something so specialised at such a high quality - the profits would be too
low. I would recommend this book to academic libraries, medical
institutions and the inquisitive amateur war historian. There is no other
book like it that I know of.

--
Ruth Barton
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Dummerston, VT

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