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U. S. Army Medical Department Logos & Titles

U. S. Army Hospital Department Titles

There were several different logos used by various publishers during the Civil War for the books ordered by the Surgeon-General's Office for the U. S. Army Medical Department and the U. S. Army Hospital Department. 

When the Medical Department became very active during the first year of the War, these logos and imprints were used on the books specifically ordered for use in the field and hospitals.  See the notice at the bottom of this page which Lippincott published in the front of Power's book on Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries.

Below are some of the examples found in this and other collections.  Any additions would be appreciated.

Various logos and printing titles used on U. S. Army Medical Department text books

1860 U. S. A. Med. Dept.

 

Below are variations of the printing styles used for the U. S. Army Hospital Department

 

 

(Any contributions to this logo collection of photos and scans is welcome)

 

This notice from the front pages of: Anatomy of the arteries of the human body, (1862) by John H. Power, M. D., illustrates this book was ordered by the Surgeon-General of the U. S. Army and has the logo on the cover indicating it was provided to the U. S. Army Medical Department

 

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Extensive information on the USA Medical and Hospital Departments:

1. Army Medical and Hospital Departments Budgets

2. Extensive history of the Medical Department

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

4. Display of instruments normally found in a Civil War hospital set 1861-65

5. Hernstein & Son, U. S. Army Hosp. Dept. issue field surgery set

6. Hernstein Civil War U. S. Army Hospital Dept. Staff Surgeon's set

7. Tiemann Civil War U. S. Army Hospital Dept. Field Surgeon's set

8. Snowden & Brother U. S. Army Medical Dept. field surgery set

9. U.S.A. Hosp. Dept. trepanning set by Hernstein

10. U. S. Army Hospital Department Bottle Colors

11. U. S. A. Hosp. Dept. medium size ivory surgical set, 1861

12. U. S. A. Hosp. Dept. 9 in. bottle, 1861-65

13. Regulations for the Medical Department of the Army, 1861

14. Notes on Army Medical  Department 1866, multi-topical

15. U.S. Army Hosp. Dept. Wood's Medicine, Vol. I & 2

16. Snowden and Brother field size U.S.A. Med. Dept military amputation set, 1861