Civil
War Confederate Medical Books &
Surgical Manuals
Authors:
Samuel Preston Moore, Edward Warren, J.
Julian Chisolm, Worthington Hooker
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A Manual of Military Surgery,
(1863) by Samuel Preston Moore, 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. 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
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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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Click to enlarge surgery photos from Moore's text book
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for field
and hospital, (1863), by Edward Warren, M.D., CSA (Extremely Rare)
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additional information on
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.
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.
Electronic version of this book
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Signed on inside of front cover:
"Medical, Raleigh, 1863, Confederate States"
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Index pages
from Warren manual
Manual
of Military Surgery (1862) by J. Julian Chisolm, CSA (Extremely Rare)
Additional information on
John Julian Chisolm, M. D.
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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
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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 stamp or stencil mark on the title page. The
distinctive breaks in the fonts and distortions would indicate the use of a
cut-out stencil and rolled ink stamp for marking multiple books in a collection.
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. It was most likely placed in a Hospital library for use by
doctors or attending staff. It is a basic science text, not a surgery
text.
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Description and
review of the text from publisher, Pratt, Oakley & Co.,1859 brochure listing
in the back of this book. |
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Registration by the
author 1854 on page opposite the title page |
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From
the title page, the stamp of the: Hospital Department, C.S.A |
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Medical
Education during and before the Civil War
Wanted for this
collection: Civil War era medical books published 1858-1865.
Especially books marked 'U.S. Army
Hospital Department', U. S. Army Medical Department, or Confederate
States of America (CSA)
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