Excerpt from The Surgeon's Handbook on the Treatment of Wounded in War
According to the requirements, upon the exact fulfilment of which the award of the prize was made to depend, this handbook must so completely represent the modern views of military surgery by an exact but brief description of the different dressings, and the various methods of applying them, as well as of the surgical operations which are performed in the field, that it would become the indispensable companion and practical assistant of every mili tary surgeon.
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