Notes on Operative Surgery Prepared as a Laboratory Guide for Students of the Medical Department Tulane University of Louisiana By Demonstrator Hermann B. Gessner, M.D.

A late 19th to early 20th-century medical training manual produced for students at Tulane University in New Orleans, offering practical instruction in operative surgical techniques. Designed as a hands-on laboratory guide, this volume reflects the teaching methods and clinical practices of early modern medicine in the American South.

Bound in original marbled boards with leather spine, showing heavy wear consistent with frequent use in a clinical or educational setting.