Civil War
Union Military Surgical Manuals and Medical Books
Medical text books, Civil
War medical books, Antique medical books, Rare medical books
Authors:
Anthony T. Thomson, Sanitary Commission, J. Da Costa, Adolf Zander,
U. S. Army &
Confederate Army Medical Department Publications
U.S. Army Hospital and Medical Departments
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Thomson's Conspectus,
(1862) by Anthony T. Thomson,
U. S. Army Hospital Department Issue
A Conspectus of The Pharmacopaedias of
the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians, and of the United
States Pharmacopaeia. A Practical Compendium of Materia Medica and
Pharmacy by Anthony Todd Thomson, M.D, F.L.S. Fellow of the Royal College.
Seventh American Edition, Edited by
Charles A Lee, M.D., Professor of Gen. Pathology and Mat. Med. in Geneva Med.
College. Published in New York, by William Wood, 389
Broadway, 1862 for the U. S. Army Hospital Department
Size: small 6
3/8 in. x 4 in. x 1 1/4 in. (Field size text book
similar to Smith's surgery manual, in leather)
Signed in the front cover by Major James
E. Dexter, Surgeon 40th Regiment, N.Y. Inf. with battle field descriptions and notes about
the White Oak, Richmond, Va.
engagement.
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Signature of James Dexter
AMA data:
Name: James E. Dexter
Death date: Jun 13, 1902
Place of death: Washington, DC
Type of practice: Allopath
See documentation about
surgeon James
Dexter, M.D. and the battlefield notes in the front of this book.
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United States
Sanitary Commission, ( Dec. 14, 1863), compiled from documents and
private papers, by Little, Brown, and Co.
Additional information on:
United States
Sanitary Commission
| The United States Sanitary
Commission, a sketch of its purposes and its work. Details
about the commission regarding it's work to set up hospitals and
tend to the injured and sick during the War.
"This book was written in aid of the
Boston Fair for the United States Sanitary Commission, Dec. 14,
1863, but was not a production of the Commission nor its
officers, but is written by one who has served with the
commission from the first."
Size: small, 7 1/4 x 5 x 1 1/8 in. |
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Medical Diagnosis,
with special reference to practical medicine, (1864), by J. M. Da Costa, M.
D. U. S. Army Medical Department issue
Additional
information on Jacob M. Da Costa, M.D.
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U. S. Army Medical
Department shield on front board
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The
Ophthalmoscope: Its varieties and its use (1864), by Adolf Zander, U.
S. Army Hospital Department issue
Adolf Zander (translated from
the German by Robert Brudewell Carter): The
Ophthalmoscope: It's varieties and use , published
in London in 1864,
3 colored plates and 67 woodcuts, published for the U. S. Army
Hospital Department by Robert Hardwicke, London
1864.
Medical Book Collection
Index
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See information on
Medical Education
during and before the Civil War
Wanted for this
collection: Civil War era medical books published 1858-1865
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Wanted: Pre-1865
medical textbooks marked 'U.S. Army Hospital or Medical Department, USA
Hosp. Dept., USA Medical Dept. |
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