A Collection of Remarkable Cases in Surgery. COPY OF FRANK H. HAMILTON.

xi, [33]-858 pp; illus. Contemporary full leather, recently rebacked with new leather spine and new endsheets. Text browned. Stain in upper gutter margin through p. 50 (see closeup photos of the title page and of pp. 34-35, as examples of this stain), and stain in upper gutter margin on last 100 pages. Good. First Edition. COPY OF FRANK H. HAMILTON, with his signature and his notation "From the Author" on p. 3 (see photo). Frank Hastings Hamilton was the author of A Practical Treatise on Military Surgery (1861) and A Treatise on Military Surgery and Hygiene (1865), and the editor of Surgical Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion (1870-71), among other works. During the Civil War, Hamilton served as a volunteer regimental surgeon assigned to the thirty-first New York Infantry. On February 9, 1863, Hamilton was appointed medical inspector of the United States Army, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. About Paul Eve's book: "This volume . . . presents unusual surgical problems grouped according to various divisions of the human body. . . . Among the 'remarkable' cases are blindness from worms in the eye (pages 121-22) and an amputation of the head with the patient surviving thirty-six hours (pages 758-59). There is an extensive index of cases at the conclusion of the volume. This book provides some of the most enjoyable and entertaining reading to be found in any nineteenth-century American surgical text" (Rutkow, The History of Surgery in the United States, Vol. I, GS41).…