‎ESMARCH, FRIEDRICH.‎
‎Handbuch der Kriegschirurgischen Technik. Eine gekrönte Preisschrift.‎

‎Hannover, Carl Rümpler, 1877. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front board. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. XV, 316 pp. + 30 chromolithographed plates and 536 text illustrations.‎

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‎First edition of this highly important and richly illustrated field-manual. Esmarch was one of the greatest authorities on hospital management and military surgery and he introduced many improvements in military surgery" the first-aid bandage on the battlefield, and the ""Esmarch bandage"" for standardising surgical hemostasis. ""He did much to improve the status of military surgery through his contributions on resection after gunshot wounds, the proper locale for field hospitals and bandaging stations, surgical techniques, first aid to the wounded, and on first aid in accidents"" (Garrison & Morton). This book is profusely illustrated by admirable diagrams, showing the different methods of bandaging and dressing, as well as the surgical operations as they occur on the battlefield.‎