( A reminder: The images and creative content of this website are the
personal research property of
Dr. Michael Echols and may not be used on any
other website without
permission !!! )
Mar 2010: Coming, Starling Medical
College set of 17 lecture cards, 1848-1849-1850
Mar 2010:
Added, An
application to the U.S. Navy by a civilian doctor, 1863
Mar 2010: Added,
E. R. Squibb
green large mouth medicine bottle, Civil War era
Feb 2010: Added,
A Treatise on Gunshot Wounds, (1863); by
Longmore, M.D., U.S. Army Medical Department
Feb 2010: Updated,
History of the Surgeon General's Library during the Civil War
Feb 2010: Added,
Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery, (1863), by
Wharton T. Jones
Feb 2010: Added, Lecture cards from University of Maryland, 1863, 1833
Feb 2010: Updated,
The Medical Staff and Materia Chirugica"
from the Med. & Surgical History
Dec 2009: Added,
Lecture card for famous surgeon, Dr. Robert Liston, Edinburgh, Scotland,
1827
Dec 2009: Added,
Article on the
Collidge field case and surgeon's companion medicine case, 1863
Dec 2009: Added,
Border Lines of Knowledge, by Oliver Wendell
Holmes, M.D.,(1862, first edition)
Dec 2009: Added,
Article on the
Inhalation of Sulphuric Ether, as reported in Boston Medical Journal, 1861
Dec 2009: Added,
Medical student's
notebook from 1888, Univ. of New York, Medical College
Nov 2009:
Updated,
Medical material requisitioned
by the medical staff during the Civil War and Materia Medica
Oct 2009: Added,
Circular
No. 7. S.G.O, 1863, Duties of
Medical Purveyors and Medical Storekeepers
Oct 2009: Added,
Book by Edwin Maxon, 'Treatise on Practice of Medicine', 1861
Oct 2009: Added,
Article on a locking suture
forceps from the 1866 Gemrig Catalogue
Oct 2009: Added,
Tiemann & Co., a Finnel's post-mortem set, 1860
Oct 2009: Added,
Article on Medical Cadets
during the Civil War
Oct 2009: Added,
Article on the Field Organization of the Medical Department, 1862
Oct 2009: Added,
Article, report on Gettysburg by Surg. Letterman about 'useless' civilian
doctors
Oct 2009: Added,
Article on 1863 Chancellorsville Campaign by Thomas Sim, Surgeon
Oct 2009: Added,
Archival data on the Hospital and Medical Department budgets
Sep 2009: Added,
Partial
U.S.A. Hosp. Dept. post-mortem set by Tiemann, 1862-64
Sep 2009: Added,
Article on
Hamilton's Regimental Surgeon's
Instrument List in 1861
Sep 2009: Added,
Article on government sale of Civil War hospital inventory to surgeons
Sep 2009: Added,
Article on the
Medical Purveyors and Store-Keepers during the war
Sep 2009:
Added, List of U.S.
Patent dates
Sep 2009: Added,
Article on sources of Civil War military surgical sets
Sep 2009: Added,
Article on Civil War brass
cartouche engraving examples
Sep 2009: Update,
Article on
buying a Civil War surgical set
Aug 2009: Added,
Documentary evidence of Norman Smith's first amputation of the Civil War
Aug 2009: Added,
Items
on an 1865
inventory list of the Conesus, N.Y. Military Hospital
Aug 2009: Added,
Article on
treatment of a venereal disease during the Civil War
Aug 2009: Added,
General
amputation procedures according to Smith's Hand-book of Operative Surgery
Aug 2009: Added,
Use of the anesthetics
sulphuric ether and chloroform during the Civil War
Aug 2009: Added,
Tiemann 1870 catalog
post-mortem instruments
Aug 2009: Added,
Article on ligation of arteries
and use of the aneurism needle
Aug 2009: Added,
Article on
cased surgical sets recommended by surgeons during the Civil War
Aug 2009: Added,
Article on
pocket surgical kit identification and contents used during the Civil War
Aug 2009: Update,
Article on suture
needles and suturing
during the Civil War era
Aug 2009: Added, Article on
bloodletting or venesection during the Civil War
Aug 2009: Added,
Selected pages from
Tiemann's 1880's catalogue for Civil War instrument identification
Aug 2009: Added,
1941 Ciba
article on Civil War medical education
Aug 2009: Added,
1941 Ciba article
on Civil War medicine during the Civil War
Aug 2009: Added, Three wide-mouth U.S.A. Hosp. Dept. medical bottles
Aug 2009: Update,
Zentmayer Article on use of the microscope during the Civil War
Aug 2009: Added,
Article on
transfusions during the Civil War
Aug 2009: Added,
Original paper-work for N.Y. Civil War hospital inventory of medical books &
supplies 1865
Aug 2009: Added, Set of
22 Univ. of Penn. lecture cards for CSA student, 1866-70
Aug 2009: Added, MacLean's War of the Crimea, U.S. A. Medical Department
issue 1862
Aug 2009: Added,
H. Hernstein,
U. S. A. Hosp. Dept. medium size ivory surgical set, 1861
Jun 2009: Added,
200 faculty & author biography pages for the lecture cards and book
collection
Jun 2009: Added,
Multiple medical college catalogs
May 2009: Added,
Yellow
U. S. A. Hosp. Dept. 9 in. bottle, 1861-65
Apr 2009:
Added, Snowden amputation set, 1860
Mar 2009:
Added, Tiemann Military
Embalming pump set, 1864-65
Mar 2009:
Added, Civil War Medical Staff sword by Horstmann, 1861 - 65
Mar 2009:
Added,
Univ. of N.Y. Medical College catalog with extensive information
on surgeons,
1850 - 59
Mar 2009:
Added,
Univ. of Michigan lecture cards, Toronto Laying-In-Wait card,
1874 - 77
Mar 2009:
Added,
U.S. A Hosp. Dept. quart bottle, amber color, 1861 - 65
Mar 2009:
Added, Article on Surgeon Frank Ridgway
to document his Civil War set, 1861 -
1864
Feb 2009:
Added, U.S.A.
Hosp. Dept, dental key by H. Hernstein & Tiemann in Civil War leather kit, 1861
Feb 2009:
Added,
U.S.A. Hosp. Dept. field set of Civil War surgeon Frank Ridgway, 1861 - 64
Feb 2009:
Added,
Several
U. S. A. Hosp. Dept. bottles
Feb 2009:
Added,
Three Civil War issued U.S.A Hosp. and Med'l Dept. medical bottles
Jan 2009:
Added,
Two
Civil War labeled japanned tin medical containers with cork
stopper
Jan 2009:
Added, A green
E.R. Squibb Civil War medical bottle
Jan 2009:
Added,
Three
U.S.A. Hosp. Dept. bottles,
two small, one quart size
Jan 2009:
Added,
U.S.A. Med. Dept. ceramic jar with a paper label marked 1863
Jan 2009:
Added,
10 cdv's of the surgeons who taught at Bellevue
Hosp. during the Civil War, 1864
Jan 2009:
Added,
6
volume set of Medical & Surgical History of the Rebellion, 1870 -
1888
Jan 2009:
Added,
Revised U.S. Army Regulations book, 1861
Jan 2009:
Added,
Set of
14 Jefferson Medical College lecture cards in the leather
folder,
1866-70
Jan 2009:
Added,
Civil
War U.S. Army Hospital and Medical Dept. medical bottle collection
Dec 2008:
Added,
Bennett's Clinical Lectures on Principles of Medicine, 1859
Dec 2008:
Added,
Hernstein & Son Civil War military post-mortem set, c. 1862-3
Dec 2008:
Added, A partial
Hernstein U. S. Army Hosp. Dept three tier
hospital surgical set, c. 1863
Nov 2008:
Added,
U.S. Army Hosp. Dept. textbook by Toynbee, Diseases of the Ear,
1860
Nov 2008:
Added, Article on
a
Tiemann post-sterilization set, c.1881 evaluation
Nov 2008:
Added, Article on a
Tiemann post-Civil War 'military' presentation set, c.1871,
evaluation
Nov 2008:
Added, Article
on a Goulding-Brinkerhoff connection evaluation
Oct
2008: Added, An F. Arnold,
Baltimore, amputation set, c. 1860
Oct
2008: Added,
Eighteen medical lecture cards from University of the City of New York,
1857
Oct
2008: Added, Hernstein & Son, Civil War issue, ivory handled dissection set, 1861
Sep 2008:
Added,
Wilson's Diseases of the Skin and companion Plates to Illustrate Diseases of the Skin,
1857
Sep 2008:
Added,
Grace's: The Army Surgeon's Manual, 1864
Sep 2008:
Added,
Diseases of the Liver and Biliary Passages,
by William Thomson,
M.D.: 1842
Sep 2008:
Added,
Index to sort book collection by author, part of
a major over-haul of this site
Sep 2008:
Added book,
Regulations for the Medical Department of the Army, 1861
Aug 2008: Added
book,
Hammond's
Military Hygiene, 1863, marked for U.S. A. Medical
Dept.
Aug 2008: Added,
Extensive collection (174 cards) of 1800's medical college lecture cards
Aug 2008: Added, 1861
Bowdoin
Medical College lecture cards
Aug 2008: Added,
Set of (8) lecture cards for
Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery
Aug 2008: Added,
Stille's Therapeutics & Materia Medica,1860, US Army Hosp. Dept. issue,
Vol. 1
Aug 2008: Added,
Federal Navy
surgery set by Wade &
Ford from hospital steward aboard U.S. Virginia
Aug 2008: Added,
Book by
Hamilton on Fractures and Dislocations, 1863
Aug 2008: Added,
Book by
Gross System of Surgery,
Vol 1 & 2, 1864
Aug 2008: Added,
Books
U.S. Army Hosp. Dept. Wood's Medicine,
Vol. I & 2, signed by C.W. Asst. Surgeon
July 2008: Added,
Book by
Stromeyer, Esmarch, on Gunshot and Resection
July 2008: Added,
Bbook by
Leidy
on Anatomy, 1856
July 2008: Added,
Book by
Flint
on Respiratory Diseases, 1856
Jun 2008: Added,
Book by
Gross on
Anatomy, 1828
Jun 2008: Added,
Book by
Meigs on
Obstetrics, 1856
Jun 2008: Added,
Book by
Condie on
Children's Diseases, 1852
May 2008: Added,
Book by
Bartlett on
U. S. Fevers, 1852
May 2008: Added,
Book by
Ray on
Mental Hygiene, 1864
Apr 2008: Added,
Book by
Hamilton
on Venereal Diseases, 1864
Apr 2008: Added, Book by
H. Smith on Surgery,
1852, first edition
Mar
2008: Added, Book by
Stille Elements of General Pathology, first edition, 1848
Mar
2008: Added,
Snowden,
Tiemann, Goulding instruments from partial Snowden Medical Dept. set
Feb
2008: Added,
Snowden pre-Civil War
civilian surgery set, c. 1858-60
Feb
2008: Added, Book by
Bedford, Diseases of Women and Children, 1860, & lecture card
Feb
2008: Added, Book by
Druitt, Modern Surgery, 1853, first
edition
Feb
2008: Added, Two pre-Civil War amputation
sets
by Kern and Gemrig, 2.0, 2.1
Feb
2008: Added,
Article on contract physicians being required to bring their own
instruments
Jan
2008: Added, Book by
Gross, Diseases and Injuries of the Urinary System, 1851
Jan
2008: Added,
Snowden and Brother capital size military four tier surgery set,
1861
Jan
2008: Added, A
set of 1829-31 Fairfield Medical College,
U. of N.Y. State, lecture
cards
Jan
2008: Added, Book, by
Smith, Atlas of Human Anatomy, 1859, second edition
Jan
2008: Added, Book by
Gross, System of Surgery, 1859, first edition Vol. 1 & 2
Jan
2008: Added, A
Snowden and Brother field size U.S.A. Med. Dept military amputation set,
1861
Jan
2008: Added, Book by Woodward, 'Camp Diseases'
, marked U.S.A. Hosp.,1863
Dec
2007: Added, U. of Penn set of
33 lecture cards for 1861-62 belonging to a Civil War surgeon
Dec
2007: Added, Albany
Medical College lecture cards, 1840-41
Dec
2007: Added,
Long Island College Hospital, 1872 / 1873
lecture cards
Dec
2007: Added, Univ. of Penn. & Louisville Medical College
lecture cards 1861-62 / 1865-66
Dec
2007: Added, Book Mariner's Medical Guide, 1884
Dec
2007: Added, Set of
Bowdoin College Medical School lecture cards, 1888
Dec
2007: Added, Book by
Liedy, Treatise on Anatomy, 1861
Dec
2007: Added, Book by
Bartholow, Enlisting and Discharging Soldiers, Med.
Dept. marked, 1864
Dec
2007: Added, An
H. G Kern, c. 1850 amputation set
Nov
2007: Added, A complete collection of
medical college
lecture tickets, 1868 -1870
Nov
2007: Added, A portrait of nine
Jefferson Medical College professors and surgeons, 1856
Oct 2007: Added, Book for U. S. Army Medical Department,
Power's, Anatomy of the Arteries, 1862
Oct 2007: Added, Civil War era
medical
college lecture tickets
Sep
2007: Added, Book
The Dispensatory of the U. S., by Woods & Bache, 1858
Sep
2007: Added, Multiple
medical books for the Civil War book
collection
Aug
2007: Added, An article showing
dates and maker labels for Civil War set makers
Aug
2007: Added, A collection of
CSA medical & surgical books
by Porcher,
Chisolm, and Moore
Aug
2007: Added, Hamilton's
book on fractures, 1860
Aug
2007: Added, Multiple books by
Barwell, Kerkes, and Bird
Aug
2007: Added, A
Tiemann leather Civil War era pocket surgical kit, four panel, 1864
Aug
2007: Added, An article on
instruments typically found in pocket surgical cases
Aug
2007: Added, An article on catheters
and sounds as found in Civil War sets
Aug
2007: Added, An article on
instruments in Tiemann and Snowden catalogs for pocket surgical
kits
Aug
2007: Added, Civil War era
Tiemann thumb lancet kit, 1863
July
2007: Added, Tiemann
Civil War military amputation set per Hamilton's book, 1861
July
2007: Added,
Hernstein Civil War leather pocket surgical kit, 1861
July
2007: Added, Tiemann
Civil War dissection/post-mortem set, 1861
July
2007: Added, Beck's
Jurisprudence, marked U. S. Army Med. Dept., 1860
July
2007: Updated, An
article on
'How to buy a Civil War surgical set"
July
2007: Updated, An
article on
contract surgeons during the Civil War
July
2007: Updated, An article on
identification of Civil War surgical sets
July
2007: Article,
Union
medical staff organization and surgical material supplies during 1861-1865
July
2007: Article,
Instrument sets specified by U.S. Army Medical Department during the Civil
War
July
2007: Added,
Zander's book on Ophthalmology, U. S. Army Hosp. Dept. marked, 1864
July
2007: Added, Medical Book
inventory for
Conesus Army Hospital 1865
July
2007: Added, Book by
Da
Costa, Medical Diagnosis, marked U.S.A. M. D., 1864
June 2007: Added,
Book by
Hooker, Physiology, marked
for the Hospital Department, C.S.A.
June 2007: Added,
Tiemann Civil War pocket
surgical kit drawings and inventory
June 2007: Added, An
article on Homeopathic and allopathic physicians in the Civil War
June 2007: Added,
An article on
Medical & Surgical
History data on trepanning
during the Civil War
June 2007: Added,
An
Article
on use of the microscope during the Civil War
June 2007: Added, A
Brinkerhoff military issue stomach/enema pump
produced
during the Civil War
June 2007: Added,
Book by
Taylor,
Jurisprudence, 1861
June 2007: Added,
Book by
Hartshorne, Medical Principles, a rare 1862 copy
June 2007: Added,
Book by
Virchow, Pathology, U. S Army Medical Dept. issue, 1860
May 2007: Added,
Book by
Guthrie, Commentaries on War, U. S. Army Medical Dept. issue
May 2007: Added,
Book by Stromeyer,
Fractures due to gun-shot, Surgeon General's Library issue
May 2007: Added,
Book by
Stille, Therapeutics & Materia Medica, book, 1864, US Army Hosp. Dept. issue
May 2007: Added,
Display of instruments normally found in a Civil War hospital set 1861-65
May 2007: Added,
Book by
Fownes,
Chemistry for Students, 1861
May 2007: Added,
An
Index of
Civil War medical text books in this collection
May 2007: Added,
Notes on the
Army Medical
Department 1866, multi-topical
May 2007: Added,
Book logos and imprints
used by the Army Medical and Hosp. Dept
April 2007: Added,
A
Hernstein & Son, U. S. Army Hosp. Dept. issue field surgery set
April 2007: Added,
A
Snowden & Brother U. S. Army Medical Dept. field surgery set
April 2007: Added,
Book by Gross,
Manual of
Military Surgery,1861
Mar. 2007: Added, A
Hernstein trepanning set, Hosp. Dept. issue with trade label and sales
list
Feb. 2007: Added,
Books,
multiple
Civil
War era medical and surgical text books
Jan. 2007:
Added, Book for U.S.
Sanitary
Commission text, 1863
Jan. 2007:
Added, Book for U.S. Army
Hospital
Dept. Steward's Manual, 1863 by Woodward, M.D.
Jan. 2007:
Added, A second
U.S.A. Hosp.
Dept. trepanning set by Hernstein
Jan. 2007:
Added, Book for the U.S.A. Hosp. Dept.,
Thomson's
Conspectus
Jan. 2007:
Re-organized book section and added many new
surgery books and manuals
Dec. 2006: Added,
The
Tiemann Civil War surgical set belonging to Norman Smith, M.D.
Dec. 2006: Added,
Research on first amputee of
Civil War Moses Herrick, by surgeon Norman Smith
Dec. 2006: Added,
Book by
Samuel
Gross, M.D.,
System of Surgery Vol. 1 & 2, 1866
Nov. 2006: Added, Article about Dr. Echols' collection, in
Antiques and Collectors Magazine
Nov. 2006: Added, Article on bone
forceps design 1829-1886
Nov. 2006: Added, Article on forceps
design and dating
Nov. 2006: Added, Article on suture needles and suturing
Nov. 2006: Added,
Book by
Maclean, Surgery of the Crimea War, (1863)
Nov. 2006:
Narrowed the focus of the site to pre-1870 and Civil War era sets
Nov. 2006: Added, A list of
medical
schools in existence prior to and during the Civil War
Nov. 2006:
Added, Article on John Erichsen, M.D., due to
addition of his text book on Civil War surgery
Nov. 2006: Added,
Book for U.S. Army Hosp. Dept. of
Gray's Anatomy
Oct. 2006:
Added, Article on Robert Liston, M.D.
, due to
addition of an 1846 surgical manual
Oct. 2006:
Updated, Tiemann maker marks
Oct. 2006: Added,
Article on tourniquet variations and identification
Oct. 2006:
Added, Scan's of the contents of an
1866 Gemrig
Instrument catalog (75 photos) for reference
Oct.
2006: Upgraded and added, More books to the
Civil War
surgery manuals page
Oct. 2006:
Added, Article on
comparison of two 1955-61 Tiemann
surgical sets
Oct.
2006: Added, A
collector books & references section with links
Sept. 2006: Added, Article on 'restoration'
of antique surgical cases and instruments
Sept. 2006: Updated and added,
Hundreds of new photos to all the
surgery set
displays
Sept.
2006: Added, Article showing
list of instruments in
various Tiemann military sets
Sept. 2006: Updated, A
trepanation article with additional photos
Sept.
2006: Updated, Extensive re-work of the whole site, photos added to
displays and more sets added
Sept.
2006: Added, Very early Tiemann c.
1830 amputation set
July 2006: Added, Tiemann Civil War U. S. Army Hospital
Dept.
Field Surgeon's set
June 2006:
Added, Hernstein Civil War U. S. Army Hospital
Dept.
Staff Surgeon's set
This collection was
started in 1995
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 06:23 PM