American Civil War Surgical Antiques

Research and Identification

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

Civil War Surgeon Education & Medical Textbooks

Never collect in isolation... Knowledge is survival

Established 1995      .     Dr. Michael Echols

As seen in: Military Images, American's Civil War Magazine, Warman's Civil War Collectibles, Antique Week, Northeast Antiques, and various Antiques & Collecting publications

 

  Surgery Set Evaluations |  Main page  |  Search this site  |  Site map

 Civil War Surgery Set Displays  |  Pre & Post Civil War Surgery Set Displays  |  Topic Indexes  |  Contact Dr. Echols

 Medical Lecture Cards  |  Reference Books  |  Civil War Medical Books  |  Surgeon Images & Swords  |  What's New?

 

Wanted to Buy List

The Private Collections of

Dr. Michael Echols

Evaluations & Consultations
Dr. Echols is strictly a collector and researcher of pre-1865 surgical antiques.  He is not a dealer. 

 

John Erichsen, M.D.

John Erichsen's Science and Art of Surgery of 1859, was the major medical text given to the surgical and medical staff during the Civil War. The book went thru 10 different editions and was translated into 15 different languages. Contains information on surgical procedures, gunshot wounds, amputations, and other treatments.

Sir John Eric Erichsen, 1st Baronet (19 July 1818 - 23 September 1896) was a British surgeon, born in Copenhagen.He studied medicine at University College, London, and at Paris, devoting himself in the early years of his career to physiology, and lecturing on general anatomy and physiology at University College hospital. His Science and Art of Surgery (1853) went through many editions. and was the most popular military surgery manual during the American Civil War.  He rose to be president of the College of Surgeons in 1880. From 1879 to 1881 he was president of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society. As a surgeon his reputation was world-wide, and he counts (says Sir W. MacCormac in his volume on the Centenary of the Royal College of Surgeons) among the makers of modern surgery.  He died at Folkestone in 1896

   

 

 

 

 Main page  |  Search this site  |  Site map |  What's New?

 Civil War Surgery Set Displays  |  Pre & Post Civil War Surgery Set Displays  |  Article Indexes  |  Contact Dr. Echols

 Medical Lecture Cards | Reference Books  |  Civil War Medical Books  | Surgeon Images & Swords

 

 

American Civil War Surgical Antiques 

Research notes and a private collection

 Pre-1865 Civilian & Civil War Military Surgical Antiques

Never collect in isolation... Knowledge is survival

This site contains the personal research notes and collection of private collector Michael Echols.  Dr. Echols is not a dealer and nothing on this site is for sale.  All content 'by Dr. Echols' and all photography on this Web Site is copyrighted 1995 - 2008 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.  Information gladly provided to dealers, authors, magazines, archivists, museums, and researchers.  Please reference and link this website to any on-line or printed use.

   Students and teachers are welcome to use the content on this educational site for reports or projects without permission.  All others please request permission first as everything on the site written or produced by Dr. Echols is copyrighted and all rights are reserved.  Permission is generally gladly given.   Thank you!

Links to this site are welcome

 

Site last updated: Saturday, September 06, 2008