Product Description
Frontispiece, xvi, 493 pp; 96 figs.
; 25 plates.
Original cloth.
Very Good.
First Edition.
INSCRIBED BY GEORGE MAKINS: "With the Author's/ compliments" (see photo).
"His war service began in November 1899, when he accompanied Sir William MacCormac to South Africa as a civilian consulting surgeon, at the beginning of the Boer War.
He first treated the wounded at the base, but was at the front during the fighting about the Modder River and with Sir Frederick Roberts' advance to Bloemfontein and Pretoria.
For his services he was decorated C.
B.
He returned to England in 1900 and in 1901 published Surgical Experiences in South Africa [offered here], which became a textbook at the Staff College and was used both in France and Germany" (Plarr's Lives of the Fellows The Royal College of Surgeons of England).
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