Item #025963 Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon, and Other Sketches, or, in the Doctor's Sappy Days. Ferdinand Eugene Daniel.
Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon, and Other Sketches, or, in the Doctor's Sappy Days

Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon, and Other Sketches, or, in the Doctor's Sappy Days

Austin, Texas: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1899. First Edition. Octavo. Item #025963

264 pages, (4)pp. ads at rear printed on rectos only, errata sheet tipped in, owned by Dr. Henry C. Cooke, Galveston, Texas, 1900. He was a member of the Texas Academy of Science. An unusually bright copy of an important first hand account with illustrations. Nevins I, p.78. In George Worthington Adams article on Confederate Medicine he quotes this work on the use still of bleeding and the price of the various opiates which were becoming scarce. His descriptions of the poor diet of the doctors (still better than for most of the men was horrifying though when it was available they did occasionally get milk and vegetables). The author edited the Texas Medical Journal from 1885 to 1910 and was listed in Types of Successful Men of Texas as well as Who's Who in America. Bound in red cloth lettered and decorated in black and gilt, spine lettering gilt, floral endpapers.

Price: $210.00