Report of a committee of the associate medical members of the Sanitary Commission on the subject of amputations.

  • Slade, D. D. (Daniel Denison), 1823-1896.
Date:
[1861]
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Credit: Report of a committee of the associate medical members of the Sanitary Commission on the subject of amputations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SANITARY COMMISSION. F. REPORT COMMITTEE OF THE ASSOCIATE MEDICAL MEM- BERS OF THE SANITARY COMMISSION ON THE SUBJECT OF AMPUTATIONS. SECOND EDITION. The attention of the Sanitary Commission has been directed to the fact, that most of our Army Surgeons, now in the field, are unavoidably deprived of many facilities they have heretofore enjoyed for the consultation of standard medical authorities. It is obviously impossible to place within their reach any thing that can be termed a medical library. The only remedy seems to be the preparation and distribution among the medical staff, of a Beriea of brief essays or hand-books, embodying, in a condensed form, the conclusions of the highest medical