Civil War Era Civilian Surgical and Medical Texts
Authors:
Quain, Joseph Leidy,
Gross, Maclise, Wilson, Bennett
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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. In all cases these
books, year and edition were listed in the Surgeon General's Office
catalogue of 1864.
Human Anatomy by
Jones Quain, M. D., First American Edition, Edited by Joseph Leidy, M.
D. (1849, in two volumes)
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.
More information
about Dr. Leidy
JONES QUAIN, MD; HUMAN ANATOMY; Revised with Notes and
Additions by Joseph Leidy,
MD, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania.
Complete in two large octavo volumes leather of about thirteen hundred
pages. Beautifully illustrated with over five hundred engravings
on wood. $6.00, 1861
Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy, (1861, 1st edition) by Joseph
Leidy, 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.
Leidy was conceded to
be the highest authority on the subject of human anatomy in this
country, drew the 392 illustrations himself. During the Civil War, he
served as acting asst. surgeon, 1862-1865, and did about 60 autopsies.
More information
about Dr. Leidy
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Univ. of Pennsylvania
lecture cards signed by Joseph Leidy, M.D. 1868-69; 1862
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John M. Dickson, Asst.
Surgeon, 93rd Pennsylvania, Care A. G., U.S.A. to Oct.
1864; also 213th Infantry.
Dr. Dickson and the 93rd were a
Gettysburg Regiment, with the 6th Corps.
John
M. Dickson, 213th Infantry, Surgeon Care Adjutant
General From March 1863.
Name: John Dickson
Death date: Dec 30, 1929
Type of practice: Allopath
States and years of licenses: PA, 1881
Medical school(s): New York University Medical College,
New York: Univ. of City of New York Med. Dept., 1848
Owner signature: 1862, John M.
Dickson, M.D. classmate of William Alexander Hammond, M.D.,,
SGO U.S. Army during the Civil War.
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A Manual of General
Anatomy of the Human Body, by S. D. Gross,
M.D. (From the French of Bayle and Hollard), Published by
John Grigg, Philadelphia, (1828, first edition)
This is the first book published by
S. D. Gross, M. D. in 1828, the same year he graduated from
Jefferson Medical College!
See
additional
information on Gross.
| Lecture card for Samuel D. Gross,
M.D. while at Jefferson Medical College in 1869 |
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Maclise's
Surgical Anatomy with Descriptions, 1857, Edited by R.
U. Piper, 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.
From the English Edition with an
additional plate by Bougery, printed in oil colors,
published in Boston by John P. Jewett and Company.
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Publisher's
description 1865 |
 
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Owner information:
John Myrick Crocker, M. D.
Cause of death: heart disease; (M)
Death date: Oct 6, 1917
Place of death: Cambridge, England
Birth date: 1845
Type of practice: Allopath
Medical school: Harvard Medical School, Boston,
1863-66, (G) |
Owner signature
'J. M. Crocker'
Presented by his
brother, Wm. N. Young, 1863
Additional information on Bostonian John Myrick
Crocker, M. D.
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Diseases of
the Skin, by Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S., (fourth edition 1857)
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.
Clinical Lectures on Principles
of Medicine, by John H. Bennett, M.D., (third edition 1859)
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.
A large (1005 pages)
volume of lectures on general and specialty medicine as practiced in 1859.
Extensive use of drawings of microscopic slides and tissue samples among the
502 illustrations. Published in New York by Samuel S. and William
Wood.
Additional information on
John Bennett and his
contributions to medicine
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