American Civil War Medicine & Surgical Antiques

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Civil War:  Medicine, Surgeon Education, & Medical Text-books

 Dr. Michael Echols

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   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 1864 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.

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

Univ. of Pennsylvania  lecture cards signed by Joseph Leidy, M.D. 1868-69; 1862

 

Owner signature: 1862, John M. Dickson, M.D. classmate of William Alexander Hammond, M.D., Surgeon General U.S. Army during the Civil War.

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

 

 

 

 


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

   

Signed by John Fleming, 1840


Maclise's Surgical Anatomy with Descriptions, 1857, Edited by R. U. Piper, M.D.

 

From the English Edition with an additional plate by Bougery, printed in oil colors, published in Boston by John P. Jewett and Company.

Publisher's description 1865

     

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.

  

  

 


Diseases of the Skin,  by Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S., (fourth edition 1857)

Owner signature H. Dayton M??, Conn. dated 1862

Plates Illustrative of Wilson on Diseases of the Skin, by E. Wilson (fourth edition 1857)

Publisher's description by Blanchard & Lea

  


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 1864 Surgeon General's Office Library Catalogues

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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