The Tale of a Field Hospital.

Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, 1900. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Square 8vo. viii, 107pp + viii publisher's catalogue at the rear. Original limp leather boards, lettered and ruled in gold at the upper board. With fourteen illustrations from original photographs. The title page printed in red and black; and the running headers and page numbers printed in red throughout with red-stamped decorations and initials. Some wear to the wrapper margins, and the backstrip leather now absent but the binding still perfectly sound. Free endpapers a little toned. Some light spotting throughout. Former owner name plate to the tip of the front free endpaper. A good copy of the author's most uncommon account of his experiences working in a field hospital during the Second Boer War (these accounts were originally printed in the 'British Medical Journal'. Frederick Treves, later Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet, was a prominent British surgeon, one of the Surgeons Extraordinary to Queen Victoria and later to Edward VII (whose life he is credited with saving by performing a then-radical appendectomy). He is perhaps best known now for his friendship with Joseph Merrick, a relationship he recounted in his book 'The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences' (1923)..