Values for Civil War Medical
Books
U.S.A Hosp. Dept.
U.S.A. Medical Dept.
The value of
'U.S. Army Hospital Department or
U.S. Army Medical Department'
marked books
and published during the Civil War will vary according to condition, rarity,
topic, edition, and desirability of topic. Most of these medical
text-books are worth a minimum of $1,500 to $2,000 and may go up to $3,500
or more for some sets by noted authors. If you are selling one
of these books, you should check
www.abebooks.com for similar editions before you sell to anyone.
If you are unable to find an example, you may contact Dr. Echols for a value
if you can supply digital photos of your book.
Examples of
the markings of U. S. Army Hosp. and Med. Dept. text-books
The logos or
printed name are found on the spine or cover of the textbook
Values
of medical books printed during the Civil War:
Values of Civil
War medical books depend on
condition and desirability of the title and author, but in general these
books will sell for $1,500 to $2,000 and up to $3,500 or more if in very good or better condition from
dealers: see
www.abebooks.com
for current values.
Just remember if you sell your book to
a dealer for less than this amount, he is going to turn around and
sell the same book to a collector for two or three times what he
pays you. You are better off selling on eBay than to a dealer.
Medical Book Author Index with all Medical and Hospital Department
textbooks shown for this collection
Examples of
Medical Books...:
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Surgeons in the Union Army at the beginning of the
Civil
War received the following text books:
Thomson's
Conspectus,
William J. E. Wilson's
Practical and
Surgical Anatomy,
Thomas Watson's Practice of Physic,
Erichsen's Surgery.
Surgeons at Union hospitals and posts
received the same as above, plus:
George Fowne's Elementary Chemistry,
The Dispensatory of the
United States,
Robley Dunglison's
Medical Dictionary,
Alfred S. Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence,
Ellis'
Formulary.
A large number of these
medical texts
were purchased during the war:
7,317 copies of Bumstead onVenereal
Diseases,
5,370 of Erichsen's
Surgery,
4,850 of the Dispensatory of the United
States,
3,895 Power's Surgical Anatomy,
3,442 Gray's Anatomy,
3,254 Watson's Practice of Medicine,
3,251 Stephen Smith's
Principles of
Surgery,
3,239 Woodward's Hospital Steward's
Manual,
3,100 Parkes' Hygiene, Parkes, Edmund,
A Manual of Practical Hygiene
2,671 Sargent's Minor Surgery,
1,905 Dunglison's Medical Dictionary,
1,640 Fowne's Chemistry,
1,542 Bennett s Practice of Medicine
1,412 Dalton's Physiology,
1,333 Parrish's Pharmacy.
1,237 Hartshorn's
Principles of Medicine,
1,178 Longmore's Gunshot Wounds,
1,062 Beck's Jurisprudence,
1,024 Stille's Therapeutics,
and lesser quantities of: McLeod's
Surgical Notes, Virchow's Pathology, Jones' Diseases of the
Eye, Bedford's Mid-wifery, Toynbee's Diseases of the Ear, Wilson's
Diseases of the Skin, and Guthrie's Commentaries
Dr. Michael
collects Civil War medical text books
printed 1855 to 1865.
Please
contact Dr. Echols if
you have questions about a medical or surgical text book
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