Annals of medical history . can Revo-lution (John Jones, Benjamin Rush, Wil-liam Brown), and, judging by the largecrop of medico-military manuals on hand,is now in evidence in all the warring coun-tries. In 1862, at the suggestion of profes-sional friends who had entered the medicalstaff of the Volunteer Army, Dr. Smithpublished a Hand-book of Surgical Opera-tions, designed as a pocket manual, for usein the field. Of the large group of such booksabove mentioned, this was the only onewhich survived a first edition. The fifthedition of Dr. Smiths Hand-book was pub-lished in 1863, a triumph for t
Annals of medical history . can Revo-lution (John Jones, Benjamin Rush, Wil-liam Brown), and, judging by the largecrop of medico-military manuals on hand,is now in evidence in all the warring coun-tries. In 1862, at the suggestion of profes-sional friends who had entered the medicalstaff of the Volunteer Army, Dr. Smithpublished a Hand-book of Surgical Opera-tions, designed as a pocket manual, for usein the field. Of the large group of such booksabove mentioned, this was the only onewhich survived a first edition. The fifthedition of Dr. Smiths Hand-book was pub-lished in 1863, a triumph for that darlingof the medical publisher and his clientele,the small-sized book. The reasons for itssuccess were not only its size, shape andflexible covers, but its well-arranged, ex-haustive index, its useful illustrations, thelarge amount of information compressedinto its 274 pages, and its eminently prac-tical tendency. It plunges, at the open-ing of Chapter I, without preliminaries,into the make-up of a surgeons pocketcase,. Editorials 321 the proper way to make incisions withscalpel and bistoury, and the suturing anddressing of wounds. In this connection, weare reminded of the fact that the most suc-cessful and useful medico-military text-books published at the present hour havebeen written in the same concise, precisemanner. The sentiment of the officer in thefield would seem to be: Long life to thesmall-sized book! Prolixity at the battle-front is unthinkable. During 1861-1865 Dr. Smith was Pro-fessor of Surgery in Bellevue HospitalMedical College, after which he held thechair of anatomy until 1874, in which yearhe became Professor of Clinical Surgery inthe Medical Department of New YorkUniversity. In 1865, he made an investiga-tion of the sanitary condition of New Yorkand reported his findings to the 1866, he made a report on hospital con-struction to the trustees of Bellevue Hos-pital, and was one of the five physicianswho submitted plans for the constructio
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