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Tags: Medical text books, Civil War medical books, Antique medical books, Rare medical books

Authors: William. A. Hammond, Rudolf Virchow, Roberts Bartholow, J. Woodward, Isaac Ray

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Treatise on Hygiene, by Wm. A. Hammond, M.D., Surgeon General U.S. Army, U.S. Army Medical Department issue with gold stamped logo on cover, (1863) "With special reference to the military services"

Covers all principles of hygiene for troops,  building of hospitals, qualifications of enlistment, etc. Over 70  illustrations.  The importance of this book is that it addressed the number one cause of death of the troops during the Civil War...disease.  It was diseases like yellow fever, malaria, small pox, typhoid, dysentery, scurvy, measles, "black" gangrene, and infections from being in the hospital that killed most soldiers rather than battle wounds.

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 Wm. A. Hammond, M.D.  Surgeon-General U. S. Army

    

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Lippincott's authorized Military Publications showing Hammond's text

 

Signature on title page: Henry Carpenter, Lancaster, Pa.
Information on Henry Carpenter

Treatise on Hygiene, by Wm. A. Hammond, M.D., Surgeon General US Army, U.S. Army Medical Department issue with gold stamped logo on cover, (1863)  "With special reference to the military services"

Written during his brief tenure as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, William A. Hammond (1828-1900) still managed to significantly reform medical supply, organization, and staffing. "During the period of his service as surgeon-general from April 28, 1862, to August 18, 1864, he accomplished many reforms in army medical administration. He inaugurated the 'Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion', established the Army Medical Museum, introduced the pavillion system of hospital construction extensively throughout the service, and provided suitable habitation for the sick and wounded. Many other reforms which later became realities were also recommended by him, such as the formation of a permanent hospital corps, the establishment of an army medical school, the location of a permanent general hospital at Washington and the institution of a military medical laboratory. In addition he urged the autonomy of the medical department in construction of buildings and transportations of supplies, a measure the full materialization of which is still believed to be essential to the service of the sick in war." (Kelly & Burrage). Many of the woodcuts in the present book illustrate the six chapters on military hospital architecture, plans and construction. As an experienced researcher on nutrition (A.M.A. prize, 1857), his seven chapters on the subject are of interest. Also important are Hammond's chapters devoted to the influence of an environmental factors ("external agents") on the health of man. For example, his familiarity with Schönbein's work on ozone and his own perceptive experiments are impressive. Hammond is well known for authoring the first American textbook on neurology in 1871 (G-M 4542). Reynolds 1844. Blocker Coll., page 179.

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.

See additional information on Wm. A. Hammond, M.D.  Surgeon-General U. S. Army

     

Hammond's Hygiene with Special Reference to the Military Services

 

 

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Name: Edmund Dulin Laughlin
Death date: Feb 6, 1915
Place of death: Evansville, IN
Birth date: 1828
Type of practice: Allopath
Practice specialities: PH Public Health
Places and dates of practices: Orleans, IN
Medical school(s): Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, 1868, (G), NY-10 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, 1872, (G)
Journal of the American Medical Association

    

Signature on title page: E. D. Laughlin, M.D. dated 1867. 

E.D. (Edmund D.) was the original owner of this Hammond book.  See the biography of Dr. Laughlin with his Bellevue Hospital commencement notice c. 1872


Lectures on Venereal Diseases, (1864), William A. Hammond, M.D., Surgeon General U.S. Army

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.

See additional information on Wm. A. Hammond, M.D.


Cellular Pathology, (1860), by Rudolf Virchow, U.S. Army Medical Department issue with gold stamped logo on cover 

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 this book and Rudolf Virchow

Signed by surgeon to the 2nd United States Sharpshooter's: W. B. Reynolds, From the Roster: Surgeon, Lynn, Mass., served to August, 1865, Dead

    

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The 'Sharpshooters',  who are listed as a separate entity in the Roster,  were commonly used to pick off high profile personnel and soldiers before a battle in skirmishes.

The 1st Sharpshooters: the veterans and recruits from Michigan were transferred to the 5th Michigan Infantry, the rest to the 2nd Sharpshooters December 31, 1864.  The 2nd Sharpshooters: the members of this regiment were transferred Feb. 1865 as follows: Company A to the 5th Michigan Infantry; Company C to the 105th Pennsylvania Infantry; Company D to the 17th Maine Infantry; Companies E and H to the 4th Vermont Infantry; and Companies F and G to the 5th New Hampshire Infantry.

Here are 3 references from the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion listing W.B. Reynolds as operating surgeon on 2d U.S. Sharpshooter soldiers. The 1st column is the soldier, 2nd being the date of surgery, and last being the operation, surgeon, and result (pensioned, death, etc...). The 1st entry is a removal of the humerus head with 2nd & 3rd being an amputation.  June 19th was the Siege of Petersburg. The Sept. 11 & November 4 date I have not identified as a battle.

CASE.--Lieutenant William Fisher, Co. A, 99th Pennsylvania Volunteers, was wounded at Petersburg, Virginia, October 7th, 1864, by a conoidal ball, which entered two inches behind the angle of the left inferior maxilla, and lodged .beneath the integument, near one of the cervical vertebrae, severing the facial and carotid arteries. He was conveyed to the hospital of the 3d division, Second Corps. He was much exhausted from loss of blood. Beef essence and brandy were administered. On October 9th, Surgeon William B. Reynolds, 2d U. S. Sharpshooters, ligated the left common carotid artery below the omo-hyoid muscle. Death resulted in twenty-six hours after the operation.


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

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 Roberts Bartholow, M. D.

    

   Owner surgeon's signature

Ellery P. Smith, Surgeon 7th Missouri Cavalry, Little Rock Arkansas  Dec. 11th, 1863.

Dr. Ellery P. Smith was Surgeon-in- Chief 1st Division and is listed in an extract by Surgeon J. Smith, USA Army Medical Director, Dept of Arkansas, 1862-65.  As found in the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion.

Fisher, J.P., Pt., A, 7th Missouri Cavalry. Aug. 16, Sept. --, 1862. Right. Surg. E. P. Smith. 7th Missouri. Discharged February 6, 1863.

 

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Dedication page and Table of Contents


Outlines of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United States Army (As observed during the present war), by Joseph Janvier Woodward, M.D., 1863, marked for the U. S. Army Hospital Department

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.

At the beginning of the Civil War Dr. Woodward entered the United States army as assistant surgeon, serving with the 2d United States artillery in the Army of the Potomac, and then became chief medical officer of the 5th division in the Department of Northeast Virginia, being present at the first battle of Bull Run. Later he became medical officer of three light batteries in General Philip Kearny's division in the Army of the Potomac. In May, 1862, he was assigned to duty in the surgeon-general's office in Washington, and charged with the duty of collecting materials for a medical and surgical history of the war and for a military medical museum. At the close of the war he received the brevets of captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel, and on 28 July, 1866, he was commissioned captain and assistant surgeon. He was made surgeon with the rank of major on 26 June, 1876. Dr. Woodward was associated in the management of President Garfield's case after he was shot,

Additional information on Joseph J. Woodward, M.D

   

U. S. Army Hospital Department


Mental Hygiene, (1863, first edition) by Isaac Ray, M. D.

Issac Ray, M.D. was among the first to use the term 'mental hygiene', and his treatise on the subject was one of the earliest American works to present a detailed program for the prevention of mental diseases.  It's interesting this book, given its topic, is 'notated' as having been at the Post Hospital at Fort Richmond, during the Civil War.  More information on Isaac Ray, M.D.

Post Hospital, Fort Richmond, (N.Y.), see document to right for information on the fort during the Civil War

   


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