Civil War Era Surgical Manuals,
Civilian Surgical, and Medical Texts
Authors:
Robert Druitt,
Robert Liston, Thomas D. Mutter, J. Moore Neligan, Robley Dunglison,
Henry Hartshorne
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Note: The following medical and surgical
texts were used immediately before or during the Civil War. They are a
window into a medical education as it was presented to the students and
surgeons who served in the War. There were a multitude of
medical
colleges in the late 1850's and 60's, as well as publishers who sold text
books from American, English and French authors.
Principles and Practice
of Modern Surgery, (1860), by Robert Druitt
A copy of this text book is
listed in the Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues or the
list of medical
textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army
Medical Department.
DRUITT ROBERT, FRCS.
THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MODERN SURGERY A new and revised American
from the eighth enlarged and improved London edition Illustrated with
four hundred and thirty two wood engravings In one very handsomely
printed octavo volume leather of nearly 700 large pages $3.50.
A
work which like Drutit's Surgery has for so many years maintained the
position of a leading favorite with all classes of the profession needs
no special recommendation to attract attention to a revised edition. The extent of these additions may be
estimated from the fact that it now contains about one third more matter
than the previous American edition and that not withstanding the adoption
of a smaller type the pages have been increased by about one hundred
while nearly two hundred and fifty wood cuts have been added to the
former list of illustrations.
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Owner signature: A. S. Martin,
Columbus, Ohio, 1864 |
Name: A. S.
Martin
Death date: Dec 15, 1904
Place of death: Cleveland, OH
Birth date: 1834
Type of practice: Allopath
Practice specialty: GS General Surgery
Medical school: Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago:
Chicago Medical College, 1863
Journal of the American Medical Association Citation: 42:665
Source: Directory of Deceased American
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Principles and
Practice of Modern Surgery, (1853) by Robert Druitt, M.D., edited by F. W.
Sargent
A copy of this text book is
listed in the Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues or the
list of medical
textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army
Medical Department.
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Publisher Blanchard and
Lea on Druitt and Sargent's books, 1853 |
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Owner signature: E. Tracey Bishop, M.D.

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Name: Elijah Tracy Bishop Cause of death: paralysis Death date: Mar 11, 1918 Place of death: Smithsburg, MD Birth date: 1833 Type of practice: Allopath States and years of licenses: MD Places and dates of practices: Smithsburg, MD, 1855 Medical school(s): University of Maryland School of Medicine,
Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Medicine and College of
Phys and Surgeons, 1855, (G) |
Lectures on the Operations
of Surgery and on Diseases and Accidents Requiring Surgery, (1846), by
Robert Liston, F.R.S & Thomas D. Mutter, M.D. (Jefferson Medical College,
Phila.)
Additional information on these two
famous surgeons:
Robert Liston and Thomas Mutter
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Signed by J. (John) W. Goodson, Belleview, Ohio, who was an Assistant Surgeon in the 72nd Infantry, Ohio.
The records from the Roster of Surgeons shows him to have been 'dismissed'
March, 1863, however the Regiment was not mustered out until 1864 and 1865.
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Lecture card and Signatures of Robert
Liston
Practical Treatise on Diseases of the
Skin, (1860, third edition), J. Moore Neligan, M.D.
A copy of this text book is
listed in the Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues or the
list of medical
textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army
Medical Department.
NELIGAN J. MOORE, MD,; ATLAS
OF CUTANEOUS DISEASES. In one beautiful quarto volume extra
cloth with splendid colored plates presenting nearly one hundred elaborate
representations of disease $4.50.
This beautiful volume is
intended as a complete and accurate representation of all the varieties of
Diseases of the Skin. While it can be consulted in conjunction with
any work on practice, it has especial reference to the author's Treatise on
Diseases of the Skin so favorably received by the profession some years
since. Neligan's Atlas of
Cutaneous Diseases supplies a long existent desideratum much felt by the
largest class of our profession. It presents In quarto size 16 plates
each containing from 3 to 6 figures and forming in all a total of 90
distinct representations of the different species of skin affections grouped
together in genera or families. The illustrations have been taken from
nature and have been copied With such fidelity that they present a striking
picture of life in which the reduced scale aptly serves to BY THE SAME
AUTHOR A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN Third American edition.
In one neat royal 12mo volume extra cloth of 334 pages, $1.00.
The two volumes will be sent by mail on receipt of Five Dollars
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Dictionary of Medical Science, by Robley
Dunglison, M.D. (1860, revised and enlarged)
A copy of this text book is
listed in the Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues or the
list of medical
textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army
Medical Department.
Additional
information on: Robley
Dunglison, M.D.
DUNGLISON ROBLEY MD
Professor of Institutes of Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia. NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION MEDICAL LEXICON, a Dictionary of
Medical Science containing a concise Explanation of the various Subjects and
Terms of Anatomy Physiology Pathology Hygiene Therapeutics Pharmacology
Pharmacy Surgery Obstetrics Medical Jurisprudence Dentistry & Notices of
Climate and of Mineral Waters Formula for Officinal Empirical and Dietetic
Preparations. With French and other Synonymes. Revised and very greatly
enlarged In one very large and handsome octavo volume of 992 double columned
pages in small type strongly bound in leather with raised bands Price $4.00.
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See information on
Medical education and lecture cards
during and before the Civil War
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