[PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED MEDICAL HANDBOOK FOR MILITARY SERVICE] افراد صحیّه درس كتابى / Efrâd-i sihhiye ders kitabi [i.e., Illustrated textbook for Health Corps members]

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Matbaa-yi Askeriye, Mekteb-i Fünûn-i Harbiye-i Sahâne Matbaasi, Istanbul, AH 1326 [1910 CE].

COMPLETE TITLE: [PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED MEDICAL HANDBOOK FOR MILITARY SERVICE] خدمت عسکريیيه قابليت بدنيه نظامنامهسی / Hizmet-i askeriyeye kabiliyet-i bedeniye nizamnâmesi. Müsvedde halinde [i.e., Regulation on physical fitness for military service] [&] افراد صحیّه درس كتابى / Efrâd-i sihhiye ders kitabi [i.e., Illustrated textbook for Health Corps members].

Contemporary dark green cloth gilt title to spine in Ottoman Turkish, with original front and endpapers. Demy 8vo. (21,5 x 15 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). Two books in one volume: (79 p; 310 p.), 36 numbered woodcut ills. Light creasing on the front and rear boards, small marginal water stains on the first three leaves, trace of an ex-label on the lower part of the spine, several ex-library stamps on the last blank pages. Overall, a very good copy.

Scarce first edition of the complete illustrated handbook prepared for Ottoman Military Schools during the Post-Constitutional Revolution period. The first volume contains “General Provisions on Physical Fitness for Military Service,” comprising 265 articles.

The second (and more important) book includes not only profusely anatomical plates but also illustrations depicting first aid and methods of transporting the wounded. It consists of seven chapters covering topics such as nursing in military hospitals, massage techniques, temporary illnesses, wounds, fractures, and sprains, the structure and functions of the human body, and the duties of medical personnel both inside and outside of hospitals.

The book, written anonymously, was intended for use in the military schools of the period and for internal service within the army.

Özege 7498, 4670.; TBTK 13343, 9556.; As of May 2025, OCLC records only one for the second book (1237643132), only in the National Library of Israel, and ten institutional holdings worldwide for the first book (OCLC no. 1127053980), with 8 located in North American libraries.