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CIVIL WAR ERA MEDICAL & SURGERY BOOK WANTED TO BUY LIST
Published: 1855 - 1865
Dr. Echols' Short-List
Dr. Michael Echols collects medical books printed in the United States of America from 1855 to 1865 as representative of education prior to and during the Civil War. He is not a dealer and only buys to add to his collection.
Especially wanted: U. S. Army Hospital Department and Medical Department marked books
Civil War medical book topics: Anatomy, Physiology, Materia Medica, Pharmacy, Therapeutics, Pathology, Physic, Practice of Medicine, Surgery, Medical Jurisprudence, Medical Police, Hygiene
Special order text books were purchased by the Army Medical Department during or just before the Civil War and most, but not all were imprinted with special marks or embossing. The following are examples:
U.S. Army Medical Department
U.S. Army Hospital Department
U.S. Army Medical Department
U.S. Army Hospital Department
Click here to see variations on the U. S. Army Medical & Hospital Department logos
Wanted: Pre-1865 medical textbooks marked 'U.S. Army Hospital or Medical Department, USA Hosp. Dept., USA Medical Dept.
Any text book marked and published by the Army Medical Department prior to 1866 is of interest. The examples on this page and the collection are just the ones I know about. If you know of others, please let me know.
Below is a partial list of medical and surgical books wanted to buy for this collection Other Civil War issued medical titles are of interest.
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Medical textbooks wanted for this collection: (The short-list of American publications)
(Click on the links for additional information, such as publication dates wanted)
Beck, Jurisprudence, Vol one, marked for U.S. Army Hosp. Dept.
Bennett, Practice of Medicine
Bernard and Huette, Enlisting and discharging soldiers
Bernard and Huette: Manual of Operative Surgery
Ellis, Formulary
Gerhard, Diseases of the chest
Goldsmith, A report on hospital gangrene
Greenleaf: Manual for the medical officers of the U. S. Army
Gross, S. D., System of Surgery, 2 vol., marked for U.S. Army Hosp. Dept.
Henderson: Hints on the medical examination of recruits for the army
Longmore, Gunshot wounds
Mitchell, Morehouse, Keen, Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves
Mott, Valentine: On hemorrhage from wounds
Neil, Smith: Analytical compendium of the various branches of medical science
Olmsted, Hospital transports
Otis, George A.
Parkes, Edmund, Hygiene
Parrish, Pharmacy
Smith, Stephen Principles of Surgery, U.S. Army Medical Dept. marked
Stromeyer, Esmarch: Gunshot fractures
U. S. Army Hospital Department publications
U. S. Army Medical Department publications
A list of medical books returned to the Army from a N.Y. hospital at the end of the War
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