Nachala obshchei voennopolevoi khirurgii vziatyia iz nabliudenii voennogospitalnoi praktiki i vospominanii o Krimskoi voinie i Kavkazskoi ekspeditsii [The Beginnings of General Military Field Surgery Taken from Observations of Military Hospital Practice and Recollections of the Crimean War and the Caucasian Expedition]. 2 Volumes bound in 1. COMPLETE

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1 leaf [title page], ix, [1], 443, [1] pp, 1 leaf; 1 leaf [title page], 629 pp, xxxii [additions, notes and corrections], 1 leaf [errata]; folding table (numbered 242a) after p. 242 in vol. II. 19th-century 1/4-leather and cloth. Top of spine chipped. Joints rubbed. Corners of covers quite worn. Cloth lightly stained. Pages foxed and browned, but the extent of the foxing or browning varies from very light to heavy. The occasional heavy foxing is in vol. I only. Tear in upper blank margin of 245/246 in vol. II. Good. First Edition in Russian. Originally published in German in 1864: Grundzüge der allgemeinen Kriegschirurgie nach Reminiscenzen aus den Kriegen in der Krim und im Kaukasus and aus der Hospitalpraxis. "Pirogov is considered the greatest Russian surgeon and one of the greatest military surgeons of all time. He was among the first in Europe to employ ether anaesthesia. He served in the Crimean campaign and was responsible for the introduction there of female nursing of the wounded" (annotation to Pirogov's Klinische Chirurgie, 1851-1854, which is Garrison-Morton 5601). D.S.B. 10: 619-21. N° de ref. del artículo 17223

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