Civil War: A Manual Of Instructions For Enlisting And Discharging Soldiers: With Special Reference To The Medical Examination Of Recruits And The Detection Of Disqualifying And Feigned Diseases, Roberts Bartholow, M.D., U. S. Army Medical Department issue, 1864

(SOLD, 8-21-2011)

A copy of this text book is listed in the 1865 Surgeon General's Office Library Catalogue or the list of medical textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army Medical Department, or the list of medical textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army Medical Department.

The need of a work on enlisting and discharging soldiers written with special reference to the wants of the military service at the present time renders an apology for the appearance of this book unnecessary Tripler's Manual and Henderson on the Examination of recruits although very excellent are scarcely complete enough to suit the present emergency in military affairs. Much of the subject matter of a work of this kind has necessarily been so long the common property of military medico legal writers as to render it impracticable for me to credit it to the original authorities I have endeavored to make suitable acknowledgment as I went along for the aid derived from others.  The disqualifications for military service are very much the same in all countries.  The lists given in this work are derived from the report of the Medical Board of which I was a member convened at Washington to determine the mental and physical infirmities which should exempt under the Enrolment Act . This work is not intended for professional experts but for such examining surgeons medical officers and recruiting officers as have not had heretofore an opportunity to become informed on these subjects.   N.Y., July 1864

Additional information on Roberts Bartholow, M. D.

Owner signature: Henry M. Lilly, Little Rock, Ark., Feb 23, 1866   Henry M. Lilly, M.D.:  Fond Du Lac, WI, graduated from  Beloit College, WI; graduated from University of Michigan, Medical Department, 1858; left the U.S. Army in 1867 as Ass't Surgeon & Brevet Major U.S. Volenteers   Biography of Dr. Henry M. Lilly

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Roster of Wisconsin Vol, .Asst. Surgeon Henry M Lilly,  Mar 28, 18 65,  Bvt Capt and Bvt Major,  Mustered Out, Mar 13, 1867

This may have been a hospital copy as the signature is for hospital administrator Dr. Henry M. Lilly and the inscription on the inside says : "Steward's Manuel"

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 Civil War: Original Manual of Military Surgery, (1862), by J. Julian Chisolm, CSA (Extremely Rare)

 Regulations of the Medical Department of the Confederate States 

$2,820  

One of only three surgery textbooks (Chisolm, Warren, Moore) published by the CSA during the Civil War.

 Additional information on John Julian Chisolm, M. D.

 Civil War anesthesia relative to Porcher and Chisolm use of ether and chloroform

Prepared for the Use of the Confederate States Army.  Published: Richmond, Va., West & Johnson, 1862. Edition: 2d ed.   A manual of military surgery, for the use of surgeons in the Confederate States army; with an appendix of the rules and regulations of the Medical Department of the Confederate States Army, 446 pages.  Plus an appendix which contains the Regulations for the Medical Department of the Confederate States.  For a total number of pages: 514.  Field size: 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.

J. Julian Chisolm, A Manual of Military Surgery for the Use of Surgeons in the Confederate States Army.  2nd ed.   514 pp.   Richmond: West & Johnson, 1862. Chisolm (1830-1903) was the foremost surgeon in the Confederacy, and his important military surgery manual went through three editions.

 

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Civil War: Original A Manual of Military Surgery, (1863) by Samuel Preston Moore, M.D., CSA  (Extremely Rare)

$2,920

Condition: The original black gauze binding on the spine is torn and needs repair, but the book is so rare I'm hesitant to have it repaired.  Price reflects the need for the repair.

One of only three surgery textbooks (Chisolm, Warren, Moore) published by the CSA during the Civil War.

Samuel Preston Moore graduated from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina in 1834 and quickly became assistant surgeon for the U.S. Army in 1835. This position required service in several frontier regions of the country including Missouri, Kansas, Florida, and the Texas-Mexico border. While serving in the Mexican War (1846-48), Moore met the future President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, who was quite impressed with his organizational and disciplinary abilities.

Moore was promoted to surgeon in 1849 and remained in this position through the 1850s. However, like many Southern officers in the United States Army, he was in crisis while the country was on the brink of civil war. When his home state of South Carolina seceded, he resigned his post in the U.S. Army and moved to Arkansas to open a private practice and to avoid fighting against a country to which he had devoted so much of his life. However, he soon received personal requests from Jefferson Davis to join the Confederate army. Davis’s descriptions of the army’s unfortunate military situation and the lack of trained medical men eventually persuaded Moore to become Surgeon-General in 1861, a position he would hold for the duration of the war.

Moore’s A manual of military surgery (Richmond, Ayers & Wade, 1863) is a compilation of papers by surgeons which provides exact instructions with illustrations for performing operations. It was intended for use by inexperienced surgeons in the Confederate army.

The material of the cover is actually mottled and original as is the o fabric spine.  Field size manual: 7 x 4 1/2 x 1 in.   Signature of G. W. Kyser   George Washington Kyser

Prepared for the Use of the Confederate States Army

Author: Samuel P. Moore, M.D.  A Manual of Military Surgery.  Published by: Richmond: Ayres & Wade, 1863. The only edition.  Original stiff paper binding.  Front board is hanging on by threads of the original gauze fabric spine.  I just could not rationalize repairing such a rare historical book.

 

With 30 drawing  plates and 174 individual figures, this was the first of only two illustrated military surgical manuals to have been compiled and printed in the Confederacy. 

 

During the Civil War, Dr. Moore was the surgeon general of the Confederate States Army Medical Department.  According to several inscriptions in this book, Moore presented this copy to George Washington Kyser while Kyser was serving at  Howard's Grove Military Hospital, Richmond, Virginia.  This genuine Confederate surgical manual is a remarkable artifact of the Civil War.  Additional information on Samuel P. Moore, M.D.

 

George Washington Kyser, Born: Aug. 26, 1841, Ackerville, Wilcox County, Alabama, Death: Jul. 20, 1911, Richmond, Dallas County, Alabama.  Dr. George Washington Kyser was educated in the old "Carlowville Academy" under Dr. Thomas Dill. In winter of 1860/61 he attended the Medical College of Mobile. The following fall Kyser entered Confederate service as a private with the AL Cavalry, Holloway's Co. (a.k.a., Crocheron Light Dragoons) under Gen Braxton Bragg.  In winter of 1864/65 he was sent to the Medical College of UVA, graduating in spring of 1865. He worked in base hospitals in Richmond and as Asst. Surgeon at Thomasville, NC. He remained until all sick were evacuated even thou he was paroled earlier on April 26, 1865. Dr. Kyser received his M.D. degree from the Medical College of Virginia.  Dr. Kyser then returned home to practice medicine in Richmond, AL.

 

Click to enlarge surgery photos from Moore's text book

    

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