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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)

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 x 1 in.

 

Signature of G. W. Kyser

Name: George Washington Kyser
Death date: Jul 20, 1911
Place of death: Richmond, AL
Type of practice: Allopath
 

 

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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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

Signed on inside of front cover:

  "Medical, Raleigh, 1863, Confederate States"

 

     

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.

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.


Human Physiology: Designed for Colleges and the Higher Classes in Schools and for General Reading; (1859), by Worthington Hooker, M.D.  Marked: Hospital Department, C.S.A.

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.

Description and review of the text from publisher, Pratt, Oakley & Co.,1859 brochure listing in the back of this book.

       

Registration by the author 1854 on page opposite the title page

   
From the title page, the stamp of the:  Hospital Department, C.S.A

 


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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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