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,
Longmore
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 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.
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
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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U. S. Army
Hospital Department |
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."
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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
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 Jacob M. Da Costa, M.D.
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U. S. Army Medical
Department |
The
Ophthalmoscope: Its varieties and its use (1864), by Adolf Zander,
M.D., U. S. Army
Hospital Department
issue
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.
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.
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Gilt printing on the
spine
U. S. A. Hosp. Dept.
and the
publisher's logo below |
A Treatise on Gunshot
Wounds, (1863); by Thomas Longmore, M.D.,
U. S. Army Medical Department
issue
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
Sir
Thomas Longmore.
"Authorized and adopted by the Surgeon General
of the United States Army for the use of surgeons in the field and
general hospitals." Brown pebbled cloth over boards, "U.
S. Army Medical Department" stamped on
front cover, list of authorized medical books and military
publications by J. B. Lippincott & Co. on front and rear endpapers,
132 pages + [12 pages advertisements]; covers gunshot wounds in
general, definition of the term, history of the surgery of gunshot
wounds, varieties of gunshot wounds, form and nature of missile,
lodgment of balls, diagnostic symptoms, prognosis of gunshot wounds,
treatment of gunshot wounds in general, gunshot wounds in special
regions of the body, gunshot wounds to the head, spine, face, chest,
heart, neck, abdomen, and extremities; amputation, wounds of nerves,
anesthesia and more, including numerous examples from previous
conflicts.
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See information on
Medical education and lecture cards
during and before the Civil War
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