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.