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Recent Acquisitions & What's New on this Web Site

• Mar    2008: Added Stille's 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 surgery set, c. 1858-60

• Feb    2008: Added textbook by Bedford, Diseases of Women and Children, 1860, & lecture card

• Feb    2008: Added medical textbook 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 Gross's Diseases and Injuries of the Urinary System, 1851

• Jan     2008: Added Snowden and Brother capital size military four tier surgery set

• Jan     2008: Added a set of 1829-31 Fairfield Medical College, U. of N.Y State, lecture cards

• Jan     2008: Added Henry Hartshorne, M.D.'s personal U. of Penn. diploma, 1855

• Jan     2008: Added Smith's Atlas of Human Anatomy, 1859, second edition

• Jan     2008: Added Gross's System of Surgery, 1859, first edition Vol. 1 & 2

• Jan     2008: Added Snowden and Brother field size U.S.A. Med. Dept military amputation set

• Jan     2008: Added Woodward's 'Camp Diseases' , marked U.S.A. Hosp.,1863

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• 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 Mariner's Medical Guide, 1884

• Dec    2007: Added set of Bowdoin College Medical School lecture cards, 1888

• Dec    2007: Added Liedy's Treatise on Anatomy, 1861

• Dec    2007: Added Bartholow's Enlisting and Discharging Soldiers, Med. Dept. marked, 1864

• Dec    2007: Added H. G Kern, c. 1850 amputation set

• Nov    2007: Added doctor's complete collection of medical college lecture tickets, 1868 -1870

• Nov    2007: Added portrait of nine Jefferson Medical College professors and surgeons, 1856

• Oct     2007: Added U. S. Army Medical Department, Power's Anatomy of the Arteries, 1862

• Oct     2007: Added a page with Civil War era medical college lecture tickets

• Sept   2007: Added The Dispensatory of the U. S., by Woods & Bache, 1858

• Sept   2007: Added multiple medical books for the Civil War book collection

• Aug    2007: Added 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 article on instruments typically found in pocket surgical cases

• Aug    2007: Added article on catheters and sounds as found in Civil War sets

• Aug    2007: Added 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 article on 'How to buy a Civil War surgical set"

• July    2007: Updated article on contract surgeons during the Civil War

• July    2007: Updated article on identification of Civil War surgical sets

• July    2007: Article Union medical staff 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 Da Costa's Medical Diagnosis, marked U.S.A. M. D.,  1864

• June  2007: Added Hooker Physiology text book, marked Hospital Department, C.S.A.

• June  2007: Added Tiemann Civil War pocket surgical kit photos

• June  2007: Added Article  Homeopathic and allopathic physicians in the Civil War

• June  2007: Added Medical & Surgical History data on trepanning during the Civil War

• June  2007: Added Article on use of the microscope during the Civil War

• June  2007: Added Brinkerhoff military issue stomach/enema pump during the Civil War

• June  2007: Added Taylor's Jurisprudence book, 1861

• June  2007: Added Hartshorne's Medical Principles, book, a rare 1862 copy

• June  2007: Added Virchow's Pathology, book, U. S Army Medical Dept. issue, 1860

• May   2007: Added Guthries Commentaries on War, book, U. S. Army Medical Dept. issue

• May   2007: Added Stromeyer's Fractures due to gun-shot, book, Surgeon General's Library issue

• May   2007: Added Stille's 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 Fownes' Chemistry for Students, book, 1861

• May   2007: Added Index of Civil War medical text books in collection

• May   2007: Added notes on the Army Medical  Department 1866, multi-topical

• May   2007: Added book imprints used by the Army Medical and Hosp. Dept

• April  2007: Added Hernstein & Son, U. S. Army Hosp. Dept. issue field surgery set

• April  2007: Added Snowden & Brother U. S. Army Medical Dept. field surgery set

• April  2007: Added Gross's Manual of Military Surgery,  book,1861

• Mar.  2007: Added Hernstein trepanning set, Hosp. Dept. issue with trade label and sales list

• Feb.  2007: Added multiple Civil War era medical and surgical text books

• Jan.   2007: Added U. S. Sanitary Commission text book, 1863

• Jan.   2007: Added U. S. Army Hospital Dept. Steward's Manual, book, 1863 by Woodward, M.D.

• Jan.   2007: Added a second U. S.A. Hosp. Dept trepanning set by Hernstein

• Jan.   2007: Added U. S. A Hosp. Dept book, Thomson's Conspectus

• Jan.   2007: Re-organized and added many new surgery books and manuals

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• Dec.  2006: Added a 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 Samuel Gross, M.D., 1866, System of Surgery Vol. 1 & 2, book

• Nov.  2006: Added article about Dr. Echols' collection, in Antiques and Collectors Magazine

• Nov.  2006: Added an article on bone forceps design 1829-1886

• Nov.  2006: Added an article on forceps design and dating

• Nov.  2006: Added an article on suture needles and suturing

• Nov.  2006: Added a copy of Maclean's Surgery of the Crimea War book (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: Article on John Erichsen, M.D., due to addition of his text book on Civil War surgery

• Nov.  2006: Added a Civil War era U.S. Army Hosp. Dept. copy of Gray's Anatomy

• Oct.   2006: Article on Robert Liston, M.D. , due to addition of an 1846 surgical manual

• Oct.   2006: Updated Tiemann maker marks

• Oct.   2006: Added an article on tourniquet variations and identification

• Oct.   2006: Added the contents of an 1872 Gemrig Instrument catalog (75 photos) for reference

• Oct.   2006: Upgraded and added more books to the Civil War surgery manuals page

• Oct.   2006: Added an article on comparison of two 1955-61 Tiemann sets

• Oct.   2006: Added a collector books & references section with links

• Sept. 2006: Added an 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 an article showing list of instruments in various Tiemann military sets

• Sept. 2006: Updated trepanation article with additional photos

• Sept. 2006: Extensive re-work of the whole site, photos added to displays and more sets added

• Sept. 2006: Very early Tiemann c. 1830 amputation set

• July    2006: Tiemann Civil War U. S. Army Hospital Dept. Field Surgeon's set

• June  2006:  Hernstein Civil War U. S. Army Hospital Dept. Staff Surgeon's set

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