Manuel du Chirurgien d'Armée, ou instruction de chirurgie-militaire sur le traitement des plaies, et spécialement de celles d'armes à feu ; avec la méthode d'extraire de ces plaies les corps étrangers et la description d'un nouvel instrument propre à cet usage

First edition, illustrated at the end of the volume with a folding plate showing surgical instruments (cf. Garrison & Morton 2158.1; V. Rozier 3346).

A copy preserved in the original wrappers, in contemporary orange marbled paper without lettering.

Spine split; a light dampstain to the lower margins of the first few leaves.

Percy stresses the importance of immediate care for the wounded on the battlefield. "One of Napoleon's leading surgeons, Percy laid down his principles of the practice of military surgery in the same year he was appointed médecin consultant of the Army of the North. He divised his own instrument for bullet extraction, the tribulcon. He was responsible with Larrey, for the invention of special ambulances and squads of litter-bearers..." (Garrison & Morton).