American Civil War Surgical Antiques

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

Civil War Surgeon Education & Medical Books

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Wanted: the following medical textbook / pamphlet

Middleton Goldsmith, MD: A report on hospital gangrene

Goldsmith, M. A Report on Hospital Gangrene, Erysipelas and Pyaemia, as Observed in the Departments of the Ohio and the Cumberland, With Cases Appended. Louisville, Ky.: Bradley & Gilbert, 1863.

In 1863, Middleton Goldsmith, a Union Army medical officer, in a Report on Hospital Gangrene, made a glowing account of the efficacy of bromine in the management of war wounds. Of 308 patients with hospital gangrene treated with bromine solutions, 8 died (2.6 percent); of 30 treated by other methods, 13 died (43.3 percent)" (Wangensteen & Wangensteen, Rise of Surgery, p. 320). "After joining the United States Army in 1861, Middleton was placed in charge of constructing the army hospital at Jeffersonville, Indiana, and was later named the hospital’s medical director. He remained at Jeffersonville until the end of hostilities, conducting numerous studies on hospital gangrene, erysipelas and pyemia" (Rutkow GSp108)

A wanted to buy list of Civil War medical books and authors

Dr. Michael buys Civil War medical textbooks printed 1855 to 1865.

Please contact Dr. Echols if you have a medical or surgical text book of interest to sell

Especially interested in books marked 'U.S.Army Hospital Department or U.S.Army Medical Department'

Civil War related medical books currently in this collection

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American Civil War Surgical Antiques 

Research notes and a private collection

 Pre-1865 Civilian & Civil War Military Surgical Antiques

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