The Use of the Roentgen Ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the War with Spain (1898)

The Use of the Roentgen Ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the War with Spain (1898)

William Cline Borden; George M Sternberg; United States. Surgeon-General's Office.

Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1900


[Radiology - Military Medicine] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Name on fep, bookplate. Clean, unmarked pages besides. 98 pages : 38 plates, chiefly showing radiographs of bullet wounds and fractures.  One of the earliest atlases of x rays, this scarce volume includes 38 photographic illustrations of x ray apparatus and many fine plates of roentgenograms of the limbs, skull, and thorax. All but one of the plates are heliotypes. "The Spanish-American War was the first war in which X-rays were used for diagnostic purposes. This is the first report on the application of X-rays to military medicine." - Garrison-Morton 2687.2.  Norman 267. Heirs of Hippocrates (1990) 2217. Cushing U31.

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