American Civil War Surgical Antiques

Research, Identification, and Collections

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

Civil War Surgeon Education & Medical Textbooks

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

 

 American Civil War Surgical Antiques

Rare Civil War Medical Textbooks

Medical College Lecture Tickets

Civil War Medical Antiques

Surgeon Images & Swords

 

Preserving our American Civil War Medical and Surgical History

 

Civil War Surgical Sets

Extensive information on identification and valuation of Civil War surgical & medical sets

What's real or fake?  What's yours worth!

On display: Civil War as well as pre- and post-War surgical sets, Civil War medical and surgical antiques, civilian amputation and surgical sets by some of the most famous American instrument makers of the mid 1800's.  The site contains over 784 pages covering from 1820 to 1870 surgical instruments and Civil War medical topics using 7,174 photos to help identify and differentiate Civil War era surgical and medical sets from earlier and later examples.  There is no where else on the internet where you can obtain the information as presented on this web site.

The Private Collection of

Dr. Michael Echols

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

Medical College Index  |  Medical Book Author Index 

 

Civil War Topics: medical textbooks, collectors, surgery sets, surgical instrument makers, surgeon images, surgeon swords, medical education, amputation kits, surgeons, medical collecting, Army Hospital Dept., Army Medical Department, Medical books, Medical college lecture cards, identification of all the above...

Articles on Collecting, Identification, Surgical Sets, & Civil War Surgeons

Hundreds of Articles and Topical Links are available via the various "Enter Indexes" below

Civil War Surgery Sets

1861-1865

 

Also....

 

American-Maker

Medical & Surgery Sets

1820 to 1880

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Civil War Military Surgical sets

Civilian Surgical Sets

Urological and Trepanning Sets

Mexican War Military Surgery Sets

U. S. Army Hospital Dept. Sets

U. S. Army Medical Dept. Sets

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Pre-1865 Medical Textbooks Collection

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Civil War Surgery Manuals

Civil War and Early Medical Textbooks

U. S. Army Hospital Department

U. S. Army Medical Department

Medical Book Authors

Medical College Lecture Card Collection

 

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Pre-Civil War Education

Medical Colleges and Professors

Surgeon signatures

 

 

Surgical Instrument Identification

 1820 to 1870

 

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Early Catalogs

Articles on identification of various instruments

Military surgical sets

Civilian surgical sets

Collector Advise

How to tell if it's Civil War era or not

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Civil War Surgeons

 

Enter Images and Swords Index

 

Surgeon Images

Medical Service Swords

Surgeons in the American Civil War

 

   

Civil War Medicine Bottles & Tins

 

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U.S.A. Hospital Department

U.S. Army Medical Department

 

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Civil War Medical Books  |  Civil War Surgeon Images & Swords  |  Civil War Era Medicine Containers

Civil War Medical College Index - Lecture Cards  |  Civil War Medical Book Author-Title Index  |  Medical Collection Liquidation Advise 

 

Direct links to all Collections on this site:

Surgical Set Collection...: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Medical Book Collection.: 1 | 1a | 2 | 2a | 3 | 3a | 4 | 4a | 5 | 5a | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9a | 10 | 11 | 12

Lecture Card Collection..: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19

Surgeon CDV images......: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

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

Hosp. Dept. bottles, tins.: 1 | 2 | 3 |

 

American Civil War Surgical Antiques 

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 - 2009 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. 

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Site last updated: Thursday, July 02, 2009