Historical Bibliography Updated: October 9, 2019

Earth as a topical application in surgery: Being a full exposition of Its use in all the cases requiring topical applications admitted in the men's and women's surgical wards of the Pennsylvania Hospital during a period of six Months in 1869.

Publication Details

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1872 CE.

Includes four "Photo-relief" (Woodburytype) plates. Possibly the only book on this subject. One may assume that the special earth contained some anti-bacterial mold such as penicillin. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

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Thematic Classifications

SURGERY: General SURGERY: General › Antisepsis / Asepsis U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Pennsylvania

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Entry Number	#9699
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Geographic Context

Publication place: Philadelphia