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

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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)

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.

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Lippincott's authorized Military Publications showing Hammond's text

   

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


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

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

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

     

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

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   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 the 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.
 

 

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 Hosp. Dept."

   


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