American Civil War Medical & Surgical Antiques

(A Private Collection - Research and Identification Project)

Civil War Era Surgical Sets, Surgeon's Swords & Images

Civil War Surgeon Education & Civil War Medicine Text-books

Established 1995      .   .   .     Dr. Michael Echols

As seen in: Military Images Magazine, American's Civil War Magazine, Warman's Civil War Collectibles, Antique Week, Northeast Antiques, Civil War Army Swords, Civil War Times Illustrated, various TV programs, Antiques & Collecting publications

 

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Surgeon General's Office Library 1864 Catalogue During the Civil War

From the Civil War Medical Book Collection of Dr. Michael Echols

Listed on this page are the medical and surgical text books used and collected for use by the Union, U.S. Army  Medical Department, prior to and during the Civil War.  It is an excellent profile of the level of Civil War medicine as practiced during the War years.

All original text and photography appearing on this site is the intellectual property of Michael Echols unless otherwise noted and is protected under United States and international copyright laws. The intellectual property attributed to Michael Echols and his personal notes may not be copied, transmitted, published, reproduced, stored, manipulated, projected or altered in any way without the written (e-mail) permission of Michael Echols, which is generally gladly given.  Website content copyrighted 1995 - 2010, all rights reserved.  Links to this site are welcomed and encouraged.  Copy-righted material from other sources shown on this site may have been posted and noted to avoid dead links to the information.  This is a research-oriented site, not a commercial endeavor.  Please give credit if you reference this site for eBay as the information is not available anywhere else.

 

 Medical Book Collection Index Sorted by Page or Index Sorted by Author

 

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Cover and Index: pages 1 - 3

 

  Anatomy: pages 1 - 2

Allen - Kolliker  Leydig - Wilson

         

 Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Therapeutics: pages 1 - 2

Beck - Wood/Bache

 

Surgery: pages 1 - 5

Abernethy - Curling Cazenave - Hodges   Holt - Ottley Pancoast - Vidal Warlomont - Wilson

 

Physiology: page 1 of 1

Blumenbach - Unzer

 

Pathology and Medicine: pages 1 - 5

Adams - Bucknill/Tuke Budd - Fordyce Frerichs -Louis  Lyons - Sydenham  Thudichum - Woodward

                            

Midwifery: page 1 of 1

Baudelocque - Velpeau

 

Medical Jurisprudence, Hygiene:  page 1 of 1

Beck - Levy

 

Natural Philosophy: pages 1 - 4

 

Misc: pages 1 - 4

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Medical Collections          

Direct links to all medical & Civil War collections on this site

American Surgical Sets:        Pre-1861:  1 | 2    -    Civil War:  4 | 5 | 6 | 7     -    Post-1865:  3 

Medical Text-Books:

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Medical Lecture Cards:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20

Surgeon CDV Images:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Medical Staff Swords:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17

Hosp Dept Bottles & Tins:

1 | 2 | 3 |

 

Currently Seeking to Purchase for this Collection

Partial or Incomplete surgical sets or instruments by:  Snowden, Tiemann, Gemrig, Kolbe', Hernstein

 Any medical instrument or book marked:   U.S.A. / Hosp. Dep't.  or  U.S.A. / Med. Department

Medical Antiques Wanted List                             Contact Dr. Michael Echols

American Civil War Medical & Surgical Antiques

This site is an active on-going collection and research project.  Additions are actively being sought.  Information and evaluations on pre-1865 material are gladly provided to individuals, universities, authors, archivists, museums, libraries, auction houses, antique dealers, and researchers. 

Students and teachers are welcome to use the content on this educational site for projects without permission.  All others please request permission before publication.  Material produced by Dr. Echols is copyrighted and all rights are reserved.  Permission is gladly given, but please ask.

All content 'by Dr. Echols' and all original photography on this Web Site is copyrighted 1995 - 2010 and may not be used on any other web site or in print without the expressed e-mail permission from Dr. Echols:  Contact   All rights reserved.  Please note, information on this site may not be normally referenced as this is an active research project and content may not yet be properly cited for publication. 

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Last update: Thursday, March 11, 2010