Civil
War Confederate Medical Books &
Surgical Manuals
Authors:
Samuel Preston Moore, Edward Warren, J.
Julian Chisolm, Worthington Hooker
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Unlike the Union Army,
which contracted for surgical and medical publication during the Civil War,
the Confederate States Army did not contract for publication of medical or
surgical books. There are really only three surgical text books which
were published for use by the CSA surgeons during the War, they are by
Moore: A Manual of Military Surgery; by Warren:
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for
field and hospital; and by Chisolm: Manual of Military Surgery.
Original copies are in this collection. Of course many of the
surgeons who served in the CSA were educated in the north prior to the War
and they would have had the benefit of owning Civil War medicine textbooks current at the time
they entered the War. How many were able to obtain new medical books
published during the War is unknown, but most likely they were obtainable
from bootleg sources in the north or were captured during raids on Union
supplies.
A Manual of Military Surgery,
(1863) by Samuel Preston Moore, M.D., CSA (Extremely Rare)
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Prepared for the Use of the Confederate States Army
Author: Samuel P. Moore, M.D. A Manual of Military Surgery. Published by: Richmond:
Ayres & Wade, 1863. The only edition.
Original stiff paper
binding.
With 30
drawing plates and
174 individual figures, this was the first of only two illustrated military surgical
manuals to have been compiled and printed in the Confederacy.
During
the Civil War, Dr. Moore was the surgeon general of the Confederate States
Army Medical Department. According to several inscriptions in this
book, Moore presented this copy to George W. Kyser while Kyser was serving
at Howard's Grove Military Hospital, Richmond, Virginia. Kyser
saw duty during the Civil War as a hospital steward and graduated from the
Medical College of Virginia in 1865. Dr. Kyser practiced in Richmond,
Alabama after the war. This genuine Confederate surgical manual is a
remarkable artifact of the Civil War.
The material of the cover is
actually mottled and original as is the fabric spine. Field size manual: 7 x 4 1/2
x 1 in.
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Signature of G. W. Kyser
Name: George Washington Kyser
Death date: Jul 20, 1911
Place of death: Richmond, AL
Type of practice: Allopath
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An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for field
and hospital, (1863), by Edward Warren, M.D., CSA (Extremely Rare)
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Edward Warren
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Author:
Warren, Edward, M.D. 1828-1893.
SURGEON
GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, FORMERLY PROFESSOR IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.
An epitome of practical surgery
for field and hospital.
Published: Richmond, Va., West & Johnston, 1863.
Edition: 1st ed.
Original stiff paper
binding.
Subject: Surgery, Military, Confederate
Army. 391 pages, no drawings, all text.
Field size manual: 7 3/4 x 4 3/4
x 1 1/4 in.
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Signed on inside of front cover:
"Medical, Raleigh, 1863, Confederate States"
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Manual
of Military Surgery (1862) by J. Julian Chisolm, CSA (Extremely Rare)
Regulations
of the Medical Department of the Confederate States
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John Julian Chisolm, M. D.
Civil
War anesthesia relative to Porcher and Chisolm for ether and
chloroform
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Author:
Chisolm, J. Julian (John Julian), 1830-1903.
A manual of military surgery,
for the use of surgeons in the
Confederate States army; with an appendix of the
rules and regulations of the Medical department of the
Confederate States army. Confederate
States of America. War Dept.
Published: Richmond, Va., West &
Johnson, 1862.
Edition: 2d ed.
446 pages. Plus an appendix which contains the
Regulations for the Medical Department of the Confederate
States. For a total number of pages: 514. Field size: 7 1/2 x 5 1/4
x 1 1/4 in.
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Publication Data,
Preface and Index
This 1858 text was
published by Pratt, Oakley & Co., N.Y., and is marked
for the "Hospital Department, C.S.A." Just as the Union Army
Medical and Hospital Departments had libraries, so did the
Confederate Army. This text is marked with a stencil mark on the title page.
These stencils were made of metal and then used to mark library
books or other materials The distinctive breaks in the
fonts and distortions indicate the use of the metal
cut-out stencil and rolled ink stamp. An example of a Civil War type
of stencil below:
  
Examples of a name
stencil kit like those used during the Civil War:
Worthington Hooker, M.D. was
an instructor in medicine at Yale College before the Civil War.
One would assume this text book was contributed to the
Confederate States Army Hospital Department at some point during
the War by a doctor trained in the north, which was the pre-War
norm. It was most
likely placed in a Hospital library for use by doctors or
attending staff. It is a basic science text, not surgery.
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Stencil mark for "Hospital
Department, C. S. A.:
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Description and
review of the text from publisher, Pratt, Oakley & Co.,1859 brochure listing
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Registration by the
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From
the title page, the stencil stamp of the:
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