War Correspondence. (Hispano-American War). Letters from Dr. Nicholas Senn Chief Surgeon U.S. Volunteers… [Presentation Copy]

Medical observations on the Spanish-American War by an army surgeon in the field

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Medical observations on the Spanish-American War by noted American medical author and surgeon, Dr. Nicholas Senn (1844–1908). Dr. Senn served in the in the field in Cuban and Puerto Rican campaigns and was the Chief Surgeon of U.S. Volunteers.

The work is notable for its numerous half tone illustrations from photographs, medical diagrams, and fold-out statistical table on the “Origin of Typhoid Fever Cases.” “Senn made experimental work an important part of surgery, developed useful procedures in abdominal and plastic surgery, and furthered both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. He considerably improved techniques of military surgery.” (ANB online) He was also the author of Medico-Surgical Aspects of the Spanish-American War (1900).

Chapter headings include “The Floating Hospitals”; “Typhoid Fever in the Porto Rican Campaign”; “Recent Experiences in Military Surgery after the Battle of Santiago”; “The Surgery of Camp Wikoff” (which chapter includes a fold-out plan or map of the field hospital there); and “Nurses and Nursing in War”.

This copy with a presentation inscription, likely to noted Philadelphia medical and surgical publisher, Walter Burns Saunders: “Mr. W.B. Saunders with the Compliments of the writer.”

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