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Articles
Advice for new medical collectors

Altered surgical instruments

Amputation and surgical knife blade comparison

Antique surgical case latches and locks

Antique Surgical Instrument Identification

Antique Week article about Dr. Michael Echols

Article about Dr. Michael Echols medical collection 2006

Bone forceps: comparative designs 1829 to 1886

Books About American Surgical Antiques

BusinessWeek article on how to protect your collection

Civil War era surgical orceps: design and dating methods

Civil War stomach or enema pump by Brinkerhoff

Civil War surgery: The Truth

Collins bullet extractor

Dating antique surgical bone saws by comparative anatomy

Digital Photo Hints for identification of antique surgical sets

Digital Photo Hints for identification of antique surgical sets printer version

Evaluation of pre-1865 antique surgical sets and instruments

Evaluation of pre-1865 antique surgical sets and instruments printer version

Excision of joints and bone drills

Families who have sold their surgical antiques to Dr. Echols

Fossbrook Revolutionary War Surgical Set

Gemrig 1870 Instrument Catalog

Goulding, William R.

Hernstein military vs Hernstein civilian surgical sets

Instruments typically found in a pocket surgical case during the Civil War

John Myrick Crocker, M.D.

Makers of antique American surgical instruments

Medical antiques price determination and valuation of surgical sets

Medical Collecting: notes on how to collect

Medical College lecture cards: Univ. of Penn. 1861-1865

Medical College Lecture Tickets for Robert B. Stockeon

Medical College Lecture Tickets from 1800's

Medical College Lecture Tickets page 3 Bowdoin College

Medical College Lecture Tickets page 6 Fairfield New York

Medical Colleges during or before the Civil War

Mental games in collecting high grade medical and surgical antiques

Post 1880 surgical sets identification

Pre-Civil War Medical College or School lecture tickets or cards

Pricing medical antiques and collectors

Reproduction Surgical Sets

Restoration of antique wood surgical cases

Snowden military Civil War partial set Med. Dept.

Stethoscopes and the Civil War

Surgical set display index

Suture needles and suturing methods during the Civil War

The mariner's medical guide 1884

Tiemann instrument maker marks and labels

Tiemann Surgical Amputation Sets c. 1855 to 1861 comparison

Tourniquets: variations and methods for dating

Trepanning trephine neurosurgery trepanation

Unlocking a surgical wood case with a skeleton key

Urinary catheters and sounds by Tiemann, Gemrig, and Snowden

Use of various antique surgical instruments

Valuation of cased surgical and amputation sets

Who collects Civil War and pre-1870 medical and surgical antiques

Articles On Books
American medical libraries in the 1800's

Civil War era medical books purchased by the U. S. Army Medical Department

Civil War Surgery manual by Frank Hamilton, M.D.

Evaluating Civil War era medical books

James E. Dexter, M.D. research notes relative to Thomson's Conspectus book

James Hadley, M.D.

Jefferson medical college professors c. 1850's

John DeLamater, M.D.

Medical texts ordered by the Surgeon Generals' Office during the Civil War

New York Civil War hospital inventory of medical books 1865

Roster of Civil War Surgeons

SGO 1865 catalogue

SGO 1866  provenance for the SGO Stromeyer book

SGO  1864 catalog

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Civil War Articles
26th Regiment Maine Vol. steward U.S.Army Hosp. Dept.

6th Mass Volunteer Militia at Baltimore Pratt Street Riot

Advice on buying a Civil War surgical set

American surgical instrument makers during the Civil  War

Chloroform, Ether, and the Civil War

Civil War Army post-mortem surgical sets

Civil War contract surgeons

Civil War Era instrument prices

Civil War Instrument Makers, Identification, Fakes and Information

Civil War leather pocket surgical kit

Civil War officer's frock coat

Civil War Surgeon Identification methods

Civil War use of a Zentmayer Army Hospital microscope

Evaluating Civil War pocket surgical cases

Examples of use of a trephine during the Civil War

General John Echols, CSA

Hiring private physicians and surgeons by the U. S. Army during the Civil War

Homeopathic and Allopathic Physicians during the Civil War

Identification of Civil War military surgical sets: USA Hosp.and Medical Dept.

Instrument sets specified during the Civil War by the U.S. Army Medical Department

Instruments normally found in a Civil War Hernstein hospital set 1861-65

Medical education during the Civil War

Medical material requisitioned by the medical staff during the Civil War

Medical schools in existence during and prior to the Civil War

Moses S. Herrick

New York 60th Infantry surgeon and J. S. Gale

Notes  from Tobey's book on the Medical Department 1866

Organization of the Confederate Medical Department

Put together Civil War set from eBay

The Civil War Federal Army Surgeon

Tiemann military surgery instrument lists

U. S. Army Hospital Department and the Civil War

U.S. Army Medical Department logo during the Civil War

W. T. Jordan, M.D.

William Hammond, M.D.

Civil War Medical Book Collection
Civil War Confederate Medical Books & Surgical Manuals page 6

Civil War CSA Surgical Manuals: Confederate collection page 7

Civil War era civilian and military medical books: page 4

Civil War era civilian and military medical books: page 4-a

Civil War era medical books page 5

Civil War era medical books page 5-a

Civil War era medical books page 9

Civil War era medical books page 9-a

Civil War medical books page 8

Civil War Union Military Surgical Manuals and Books: page 2

Civil War Union Military Surgical Manuals and Books: page 2-a

Civil War Union Surgical and Medical Books: page 1

Civil War Union Surgical and Medical Books: page 1a

Civil War Union Surgical Manuals and Medical Books: page 3

Civil War Union Surgical Manuals and Medical Books: page 3-a

Civil War Medical Books Wanted
 Bernard and Huette: Manual of Operative Surgery

 Druitt, principles and practice of surgery

 Edward Parrish, An Introduction to Practical Pharmacy

 Frerichs, Diseases of the Liver

 Guthrie, surgery  of war

 Harley: Jaundice; its pathology and treatment

 Holt: On treatment of stricture of the urethra

 J. Moore Neligan: Diseases of the skin; Atlas of Cutaneous Diseases

 John Hunter: Treatise on the blood

 Joseph Maclise, Surgical Anatomy

 M. L. Knapp, Primary Pathology

 Martyn Paine, Institutes of Medicine

 Robert Lyons, Hand-book of Hospital Practice

 S. D. Gross, Diseases and Injuries of the Bladder

 Tweedie: Lectures on continued fevers

 United States Surgeon General's Office

Adolf Zander, The Ophthalmoscope

Alfred S. Taylor Medical Jurisprudence

Austin Flint, Diseases of the Heart; Respiratior Organ

Bartholow: A manual of instructions for enlisting and discharging soldiers

Barwell, diseases of the joints

Beck, Jurisprudence

Bell Stokes: Theory and Practice of Physic

Bell: A manual of instructions for enlisting and discharging soldiers

Bennett: Principles and practice of medicine

Bernard and Huette: Instructions for enlisting and discharging soldiers

Bernard Byrne: Essay to prove the contagious character of cholera

Bright, Clinical Memoirs of Abdominal Tumours

Bumstead, venereal diseases

Chisolm, J. Julian, Surgery CSA

Curling: Diseases of the rectum

Dunglison: Cyclopaeda of Practical Medicine, 4 vol.

Ellis, formulary

Erasmus Wilson: Human Anatomy

Erichsen: Science and art of surgery

Frank Hastings Hamilton, Treatise on Fractures and Dislocations

Fred Skey, operative surgery

Gairdner, Clinical medicine

Gerhard, diseases of the chest

Grace, Army surgeon's manual

Greenleaf: Manual for the medical officers of the U. S. Army

Hammond, William A.

Hartshorn,  Principles of Medicine, Notebook of Medical Principles

Hassall: Urine in health and Disease

Henderson: Hints on the medical examination of recruits for the army

Henry H. Smith, A System of Operative Surgery

Holmes: System of surgery, 4 vol.

Jackson, Charles T., A manual  of  etherization

John Beck: Lectures on Materia Medica

John Davy, Diseases of the Army

John Snow, On Chloroform and other Anesthetics

Jones, Diseases of the Eye

Jones, opthalmic medicine and surgery

Jones: Practice of opthalmic

Joseph Janvier Woodward: Camp Diseases

Leidy, anatomy

Lidell: On Gunshot Wounds of Arteries

Longmore: Army surgeons testing vision

Longmore:  Treatise on Gunshot Wounds

Macleod: Notes on the War in the Crimea

Maxson: Practice of Medicine

Middleton Goldsmith, A report on hospital gangrene

Mitchell, Morehouse, Keen, gunshot wounds

Mott, Valentine:  On hemorrhage from wounds

Murchison: Treatise on the continued fevers in Great Britain

Neal: Diet for the sick and convalescent

Neil, Smith: Analytical compendium of the various branches of medical science

Olmsted, Hospital transports

Otis, George A.

Packard, minor surgery

Pancoast: Operative surgery

Parkes: Manual of practical hygiene

Power, Anatomy of the Arteries and the Human Body

Richard M. Hodges: The Excision of Joints

Robertson: Extracting teeth

S. D. Gross: Manual of military surgery

Samuel P. Moore, Manual of Military Surgery

Sargent: Bandaging and otheer Operations of  Minor surgey

Smith, Stephen, Handbook of Surgical Operations

Stille, therapeutics and materia medica

Stromeyer, Esmarch: Gunshot fractures

Thomas Watson practice of physic

Thudichum: Treatise on Gall-Stones

Toynbee, Diseases of the Ear

Trippler, Hand-book for military surgeon

U. S. Army Hospital Department

U. S. Army Medical Department

United States Sanitary Commission

United States War Department, regulations for the Medical Department of the Army

Virchow, Pathology

Warren: Epitome of practical surgery for field and hospital

Watson: Practice of Physic

Wilson, Human Anatomy

Wood, Bache, The dispensatory of the United States, Civil War issue

Woodward: Hospital steward's manual

Civil War Medical Colleges Wanted
 

  Memphis Medical School

 Indiana Central Medical College

 Medical College of Virginia

 Medical Department of Cincinnati College

 Medical Department of Illinois College

 Medical Department of Lind University

 Medical Department of St. Louis University

 Medical School of Harvard

 Penn Medical University of Philadelphia

 University of Louisville Medical Department

 University of Pacific Medical Department

 Washington Medical College of Baltimore

 Wisconsin Medical College

Albany Medical College

Atlanta Medical College

Auburn Medical School

Bellevue Hospital Medical College

Bershire Medical Institute of Massachusetts

Brown University Medical School

Castleton Medical College

Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery

Cleveland Medical College - Western Reserve College,

College of Medicine of Maryland

College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Iowa University

College of Physicians and Surgeons, Western District of New York State

Columbian College, Medical Department

Dartmouth College, Department of Medicine

Geneva Medical College

Georgetown College School of Medicine

Humboldt Medical College

Jefferson Medical College lecture tickets

Kentucky School of Medicine

King’s and Columbia Schools of Medicine

LaPorte University Medical Department

Long Island College Hospital

Louisville Medical Institute

Medical College of Alabama

Medical College of Evansville

Medical College of Georgia

Medical College of Louisiana

Medical College of Ohio

Medical College of South Carolina

Medical Department of Hampden-Sidney College

Medical Department of Pennsylvania College

Medical Department of Randolph-Macon College

Medical Department of the Missouri Institute of Science

Medical Department of the University of Nashville

Medical Department of Transylvania University

Medical Department of University of Louisiana

Medical Department University of Virginia

Medical Institution of Yale College

Medical Lectures at William and Mary

Medical School of Maine, Bowdin College

Miami Medical College

New Orleans School of Medicine

New York Medical College

New York University Medical College

Oglethorpe Medical College

Philadelphia College of Medicine

Rock Island Medical College

Rush Medical College

Rutgers College (Queens College)

Savannah Medical College

Shelby Medical College

St. Louis College of Medical and Natural Sciences

St. Louis Medical College

Starling Medical College

University of Buffalo Department of Medicine

University of Michigan Medical School

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, College of Philadelphia

University of Pennsylvania, Medical College

University of Vermont Medical Department

Vermont Medical College

Willoughby Medical College

Winchester Medical College of Virginia

Civil War Surgeons Swords And Images
Ames Sword Company History

Civil War surgeon sword by Tiffany

Civil War Surgeon's swords

Civil War Surgery set by Kern

Civil War Surgery Set Ross

Civil War sword of Dr. Bentley

Civil War sword of Dr. Buck

Civil War sword of Dr. DeWolf

Civil War sword of Dr. Henry C. Bunce

Civil War sword of Dr. J.  H. Seltzer

Civil War sword of Dr. L. D. Harlow

Civil War sword of Dr. Martin

Civil War sword of Dr. Plaisted

Civil War sword of Dr. Wm. Gunkle

Collecting Civil War Images Part 5

Collecting Civil War surgeon's images

Collecting Civil War surgeon's images page 7

Collecting Civil War surgeon's images part II

Collecting Civil War surgeon's stereo images

Dr. A. B. Beattie sword

Dr. Beech's Civil War sword

Dr. Bentley's presentation sword and pistol

Dr. Elliott's commission signed by A. Lincoln

Dr. Kittinger's Tiemann surgery set

Dr. Samual Green

Dr. Schaffner Civil War surgery set CSA

Dr. Sim Civil War sword

Dr._Roach_sword

Evaluaing Civil War surgeon's images

Index for surgeon's images and swords

Lt.  V. K. Spear's sword

Medical sword of asst. surgeon Benjamine F. Taft

Reagles article

Surgeon Bentley's transfusion story

Surgeon Gilbert amputation stereo card

Willard Civil War sword

Gemrig Catalog
Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog amputation instruments

Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog cover, toc, post-mortem

Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog dental instruments

Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog ear surgery instruments

Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog eye surgery instruments

Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog instruments for operations on bones

Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog instruments for the urethra and bladder

Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog instruments for uterine surgery

Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog lithotomy instruments

Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog minor surgery instruments

Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog miscellaneous instruments

Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog obstetric instruments

Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog pocket instruments

Gemrig 1872 instrument catalog surgery of the throat instruments

Makers
Snowden and Brother

Medical Authors
Alfred Stille, M.D.

Arthur White, M.D.

Beck, Theodric R.

Dr. Frances Porcher

Edward Warran, M.D., CSA

Frank Hasting Hamilton, M.D.

Freeman J. Bumstead, on veneral disease

George B. Wood

George Bacon Wood

Gunning Bedford, M.D.

Henry H. Smith, M.D.

J. M. Da Costa, M.D.

James McNaughton, M.D.

John Erichsen, M.D. surgeon

Joseph Leidy, M.D.

Julian John Chisolm, M.D., CSA

Packard, John H., M.D.

Power, John Hatch, M.D.

Robert Liston and Thomas Mutter on surgery

Robert Liston, MD

Roberts Bartholow, M.D.

Robley Dunglison, M.D.

Samuel Gross M.D.

Sargent and Atlee on Minor Surgery

Stephen Smith, M.D., Civil War surgeon and author

Thomson's Conspectus, U.S.A. Hosp. Dept, 1862

Tripler and Blackman

United States Sanitary Commission

Virchow's Cellular Pathology Medical Department issue

William Mackenzie, M.D.

Woodward, Joseph Janvier surgeon

Set Displays
American Cased Surgical and Amputation Set Photos 1

American Cased Surgical and Amputation Set Photos 2

American Cased Surgical and Amputation Set Photos 3

American Cased Surgical and Amputation Set Photos 4

Civil War Cased Surgical and Amputation Set Photos 5

Civil War Cased Surgical and Amputation Set Photos 6

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Topical Index for American Cased Surgical and Amputation Sets from 1800 to 1865

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Surgery Sets
Aloe and Hernstein 1879 amputation set

Civil War issue resection surgical set by Gemrig

Civil War Tiemann leather pocket surgical kit

Civil War Tiemann thumb lancet case

Civil War USA urological set by Tiemann

Codman and Shurtleff surgical set

Dr. Norman Smith's c. 1861 Tiemann Civil War surgical set

Gemrig 1840 Surgical Amputation Set

Gemrig 1850 surgical set

Gemrig 1860s resection set

Gemrig 1866 military surgical set

Gemrig 1867 and 1855 surgical sets compared

Gemrig 1867 surgical set

Gemrig 1868 surgical set

Gemrig 1870 surgical set

Gemrig c.1880 three section surgical set

Gemrig mid to later 1850's surgical set

Gemrig Surgical Amputation Set  c.1860

George Tiemann c. 1830 amputation set

Goulding Military Surgical Amputation Set: Mexican Wars 1850's

Goulding Military Trepanning Set: Mexican Wars 1850's

H.G. Kern, Amputation set, c. 1850

Helmold surgical set c. 1880's

Henry Schively lithotomy set c. 1840

Hernstein & Son, c. 1861 USA Hosp Dept field set

Hernstein 1860 CSA Civil War  Surgical Set

Hernstein and Son Civil War pocket surgical kit

Hernstein c. 1861 USA Hosp Dept set

Hernstein Civil War surgery set c. 1865

Hernstein CW partial set

Hernstein Military 'Civil War' Surgical Set

Hernstein Trepanning Set, marked USA

Hernstein Trepanning Set, marked USA partial, labeled

Hernstein Trepanning Set, marked USA partial, later, unlabeled

Hernstein Trepanning Set, marked USA, partitioned,  labeled, sales list, complete

Kern 1870 amputation set

Klott and Wolf surgical set

Kolbe Civil War surgical set

Kolbe pocket surgical set

Kuemerle Surgical Amputation Set c. 1855

Martin surgical set c. 1850

Peter Rose amputation set c. 1829

Peter Rose trepanning set c.1836

Sharp and Smith surgical set c. 1880

Shepard And Dudley Surgical c. 1870 Amputation Set

Snowden and Brother Civil War capital  surgical set

Snowden and Brother Civil War Medical Department capital  surgical set

Snowden and Brother Civil War military four tier surgical set

Snowden and Brother Pre-Civil War surgical set 1860

Snowden Civil War military issue U.S.A. Medical Department field set

Snowden Post Mortem set c. 1860 USA Medical Department

Tiemann 1850 Eye Surgery Set

Tiemann Civil War era dissection set

Tiemann Civil War ivory surgery set

Tiemann Civil War partial set

Tiemann Civil War small amputation set per Hamilton

Tiemann Ivory Surgical Amputation Set

Tiemann part set c. 1890

Tiemann pocket surgical kit of Dr.John  Coover

Tiemann post mortem dissection set

Tiemann surgery set c. 1864

Tiemann U.S.Army Hospital Dept. field set

Tuefel Surgical Amputation Set c. 1870

Wade and Ford Civil War Surgical Set

Wade and Ford trepanning set

Wiegand and Snowden c. 1850 trephine set

Wigand and Snowden Trepanning set c. 1830

Wocher Surgical Amputation Set c. 1850

Young surgical set

Wanted
A list of Civil War medical and surgical books wanted

Civil War medical and Civil War surgical books

Civil War medical and surgical books wanted from 1855 to 1865

Civil War U.S.A. Hospital Department medical books

Civil War U.S.Army Medical Department medical books

The long list of Civil War medical and surgical books wanted

Wanted list of Civil War era surgical antiques and books

Zentmayer brass microscopes made for U. S. Army