Civil War Surgical Manuals,
U.S.A. Hosp. Dept., and Civilian Medical Books
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Note: Part of the
rarity factor for these Civil War books is the fact they were chosen by
the U.S. Army Medical Dept. for inclusion in the Surgeon General's
Library for use by Army Surgeons during the Civil War. Not all
were marked as having been distributed to the Army Hospital Dept. staff,
but the books were selected by the U. S. Army Medical Dept. staff for their value to
the surgeons at the time of the War and listed in the
Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogue
Diseases of
the Ear: Their Nature, Diagnosis and Treatment, (1860), by Joseph Toynbee,
M.D.
$486
Condition is very good
plus, NOT ex-library, all original, used by the military during the Civil
War era.
A copy of this text book
is listed in the
Surgeon General's Office Library Catalogues and the
list of medical
textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army Medical
Department.
Additional
information on Joseph Toynbee, M.D.
Garrison-Morton: "The foundation of aural
pathology. In this book Toynbee described the method of removing the
temporal bone and discussed the post mortem appearances in relation to the
symptoms observed during life. He made over 2,000 dissections of the ear."
"Joseph Toynbee died at the age of 51 as the result of an experiment on
himself. Believing that tinnitus might be relieved by inhalation of the
vapours of chloroform and prussic acid, with subsequent Valsalva inflation,
he subjected himself to the test, with a fatal result. He thus became a
martyr in the cause of the science of otology"
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A System of
Operative Surgery, (1852, first edition), by Henry H. Smith,
M.D.
SOLD,
11-24-2011
A copy of
this text book is listed in the 1864 and 1865
Surgeon General's Office
Library Catalogues
If there
is any doubt in your mind about what surgeons knew and were
able to perform within the body cavity, prior to 1850, this
massive book will put to rest any questions you may have had
about their knowledge during the Civil War. Bottom-line:
the surgeon's who were properly trained knew plenty,
performed delicate and technical surgery, and not just gross
amputations! This massive 698 page book shows exactly what
they knew and when they knew it!
At the
outbreak of the Civil War, Dr. Henry H. Smith was appointed
the surgeon general of Pennsylvania. He originated the plan
for the removal of the wounded from the battlefield to large
hospitals in major cities, organized a corps of surgeons on
steamers that were used as floating hospitals at the siege
of Yorktown and tended to the wounded after various battles,
i.e., Cold Harbor and Antietam.
Additional information on
Henry H. Smith, M.D.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 698 pp. 2 pages
advertisements. 79 plates. Philadelphia. 1852 (1851)
Excellent view of pre-Civil War surgical procedures.
 
Manual of Physiology, (1859), by William Senhouse Kirkes, M.D.
$95
A copy of
this text book is listed in the 1865
Surgeon General's Office
Library Catalogues
KIRKES,
WILLIAM SENHOUSE MD, Demonstrator of Morbid Anatomy at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital. A MANUAL OF PHYSIOLOGY. A new American
edition from the third and improved London edition. With two
hundred illustrations In one large and handsome royal 12mo
volume leather, pp 586 $2.00.
This is a new
and very much improved edition of Dr Kirkes well known Handbook
of Physiology. It combines conciseness with completeness and is
therefore admirably adapted for consultation by the busy
practitioner. Dublin Quarterly Journal. Its excellence is in
its compactness its clearness and its carefully cited
authorities it is the most convenient of text books. These
gentlemen Messrs Kirkes and Paget have the gift of telling us
what we want to know without thinking it necessary to tell us
all they know. Boston Med and Surg Journal. For the student
beginning this study and the practitioner who has the leisure to
refresh his memory this book is invaluable as it contains all
that it is important to know. Charleston Med Journal, 1861
There are
illustrations of the development of the embryo and many other
illustrations of anatomical references. There is a great index
in the back that list every subject. Medical, Anatomy Physiology
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Civil War:
Therapeutics
and Materia Medica, (1860, first edition), by
Alfred Stille,
two volume set, U. S. Army
Hospital Department marked, (Volume One
only)
$550
A copy of
this text book is listed in the 1864 &1865
Surgeon General's Office Library Catalogue
and the
list of medical textbooks which were published
during the Civil War by the Army Medical
Department.
Additional
information on
Alfred Stille, M.D.
ALFRED
STILLE, M. D.; THERAPEUTICS AND MATERIA
MEDICA, a Systematic Treatise on the Action
and Uses of Medicinal Agents including their
Description and History In two large and
handsome octavo volumes of 1789 pages, $8
00.
This work
is designed especially for the student and
practitioner of medicine and treats the
various articles of the Materia Medica from
the point of view of the bedside and not of
the shop or of the lecture room. While thus
endeavoring to give all practical
information likely to be useful with respect
to the employment of special remedies in
special affections and the results to be
anticipated from their administration a
copious Index of Diseases and their Remedies
renders the work eminently fitted for
reference by showing at a glance the
different means which have been employed and
enabling the practitioner to extend his
resources in difficult cases with all that
the experience of the profession has
suggested.
Blanchard
& Lea. 1860-1st. Edition Blanchard and Lea,
Philadelphia, 23cm, in sheep binding, viii,
975 p., index: footnote references, A book
used in the Civil War, Union Army.:
THERAPEUTICS and MATERIA MEDICA-A Systematic
Treatise on the Action and Uses of Medicinal
Agents: vol. II: MILITARY MEDICINE:
PHARMACOLOGY: ALFRED STILLÉ
Civil War:
Diseases of
the Ear: Their Nature, Diagnosis and Treatment, (1860), by Joseph Toynbee,
M.D.
two volume set, U. S. Army
Hospital Department marked, (Volume One
only)
$550
A
copy of this text book is listed in the 1864 &1865
Surgeon General's Office Library Catalogue and
the
list of medical textbooks which were published
during the Civil War by the Army Medical
Department.
Additional information on
Alfred Stille, M.D.
ALFRED STILLE,
M. D.; THERAPEUTICS AND MATERIA MEDICA, a
Systematic Treatise on the Action and Uses of
Medicinal Agents including their Description and
History In two large and handsome octavo volumes
of 1789 pages, $8 00.
This work is
designed especially for the student and
practitioner of medicine and treats the various
articles of the Materia Medica from the point of
view of the bedside and not of the shop or of
the lecture room. While thus endeavoring to
give all practical information likely to be
useful with respect to the employment of special
remedies in special affections and the results
to be anticipated from their administration a
copious Index of Diseases and their Remedies
renders the work eminently fitted for reference
by showing at a glance the different means which
have been employed and enabling the practitioner
to extend his resources in difficult cases with
all that the experience of the profession has
suggested.
Blanchard &
Lea. 1860-1st. Edition Blanchard and Lea,
Philadelphia, 23cm, in sheep binding, viii, 975
p., index: footnote references, A book used in
the Civil War, Union Army.: THERAPEUTICS and
MATERIA MEDICA-A Systematic Treatise on the
Action and Uses of Medicinal Agents: vol. II:
MILITARY MEDICINE: PHARMACOLOGY: ALFRED STILLÉ
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Elements
of General Pathology, A Practical Treatise, (1848) by
Alfred Stille, M.D.
$85
The first edition of
this textbook by Dr. Stille. (5.5 x 8 x 1.5 in.),
published by Lindsay and Blakiston, Philadelphia
Philadelphia: Lindsay
& Blakiston, 1848., 1848. xvi, [25]-483 pp; ads.
Original full sheep. "Stillé had become a prominent
lecturer on pathology and the practice of medicine in
several Philadelphia hospitals. . . Stillé felt that
hitherto 'English literature had . . . possessed no work
exclusively devoted to general pathology'; with this in
mind Stillé proposed to give a brief view of etiology,
neology, semeiology, diagnosis and prognosis, omitting
the hygiene, prophylaxis and therapeutics commonly
treated in other texts of similar objective. . . .
Rather remarkably he felt that pathological anatomy had
run its course, and that those who had done the most to
advance the subject should now turn their attention to
the fluids of the body, using the microscope to discover
facts deep within the recesses of organized matter. The
smallest of the four main sections of the book was
devoted to 'general morbid anatomy', but in the midst of
many generalities he included a chapter on exact
instructions for performing autopsies, following this
with an abbreviated description of the major types of
abnormalities encountered in post-mortem examinations.
"His first important work, 'The Elements of General
Pathology', 1848, was based on the modern researches.
Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine,
(1859), by Alfred S. Taylor, M. D.
$185
A copy of
this text book is listed in the 1864
Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues
"In laying
the present work before the profession, the desire of the author
has been to give a more extended view of the subject of
TOXICOLOGY than he has hitherto been able to introduce into his
MANUAL OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE" (Preface, p. v). "Taylor's
interest in forensic medicine led to his appointment to the
first chair of medical jurisprudence at Guy's in 1831. . . . It
was the first chair in that subject in London and Taylor held
the post until he retired in 1878. . . . His two major works,
Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (London, 1836) and Poisons in
Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine (London, 1848),
became standard works during his lifetime because they
systematized legal principles and court rulings so skillfully
with toxicological data and anatomical and pathological
findings" (annotation to Heirs of Hippocrates 1693). See
Garrison-Morton 1738 for Taylor's 1836 Elements of Medical
Jurisprudence, which evolved into his Manual. See Nemec,
Highlights in Medicolegal Relations no. 389. See Garrison
Morton-1738
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Civil War:
Medical
Jurisprudence, by Theodric Romeyn Beck,
M.D ; John B. Beck, M.D. , marked
U.S.
Army Medical Dept.,
(1860),
Vol. One
only
$550
Elements of Medical Jurisprudence By Theodoric
Romeyn Beck, MD, Professor of Materia Medica in the
Albany Medical College and John B. Beck, MD,
Professor of Materia Medica and Medical
Jurisprudence in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of the City of New York, Corresponding
Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris
Corresponding Member of the Medical Society of
London.
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
Theodric R. Beck, M.D.
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Publisher: J. P.
Lippincott's listing of medical textbooks in this
text, 1860, Two volumes 8vo
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Marked: U. S. A.
Med. Dept.
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