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   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.

 

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.

   


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.

   


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.

U. S. Army Medical Department shield on front board

   

 

 


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.

Gilt printing on the spine showing U. S. A. Hosp. Dept. and the publisher's logo below

     

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Wanted for this collection:  Civil War era medical books published 1858-1865

 

 Wanted:  Pre-1865 medical textbooks marked  'U.S. Army Hospital or Medical Department, USA Hosp. Dept., USA Medical Dept.

 

 

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 Pre-1865 Civilian & Civil War Military Surgical Antiques

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