Civil War Era Civilian Surgical and Medical Texts
Authors:
Wood, Bache,
S. D. Gross, Bedford, Meigs, Condie, Thomson, Braithwaite
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The following medical and surgical
texts were used immediately before or during the Civil War. They are a
window into a medical education as it was presented to the students and
surgeons who served in the War. There were a multitude of
medical
colleges in the late 1850's and 60's, as well as publishers who sold text
books from American, English and French authors. In all cases these
books, year and edition were listed in the Surgeon General's Office
catalogue of 1864.
The
Dispensatory of the United States of America, (1858, eleventh
edition) Wood, George B.; Bache, Franklin
A copy of this text book is
listed in the Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues or the
list of medical
textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army
Medical Department.
This is the standard issue used all during
the Civil War and is the edition (eleventh) listed in the Surgeon General's Office Library.
Equipment is illustrated. Includes an abbreviated British
Pharmacopia within. One of the most important medical references of
the time. With A to Z reference in three seperate parts - Materia
Medica; Preperations; Drugs and Medicines.
Additional information on
George B. Woods
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Signature by a
member of the Bache family, his daughter, 1865 |
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The
Dispensatory of the United States of America, (1858, eleventh
edition) Wood, George B.; Bache, Franklin,
U.S. Army Medical Department
A copy of this text book is
listed in the Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues or the
list of medical
textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army
Medical Department.
This is the Army
Medical Department issue used all during
the Civil War and is the edition (eleventh) listed in the Surgeon General's Office Library.
Equipment is illustrated. Includes an abbreviated British
Pharmacopia within. One of the most important medical references of
the time. With A to Z reference in three seperate parts - Materia
Medica; Preperations; Drugs and Medicines.
Additional information on
George B. Wood
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Marked for:
U. S. A. Med.
Dept.
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A Practical
Treatise on the Diseases and Injuries of the Urinary Bladder, Prostate
Gland, and the Urethra, by S. D. Gross, M.D., (1851, 1st. edition)
A copy of this text book is
listed in the
Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues or the
list of medical
textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army
Medical Department.
Additional
information on Samuel
Gross
GROSS SAMUEL D.,
MD, Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College of
Philadelphia. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES INJURIES AND
MALFORMATIONS OF THE URINARY BLADDER THE PROSTATE GLAND AND THE URETHRA
Second Edition revised and much enlarged with one hundred and eighty
four illustrations In one large and very handsome octavo volume of over
nine hundred page. In leather raised bands $5 25 extra cloth
$4.75.
| Lecture card for Samuel D. Gross,
M.D. while at Jefferson Medical College in 1869 |
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Receipt for Dr. J. A. Dortch from Lea & Blanchard
 
List of publications by Lea &
Blanchard in 1851
Clinical Lectures on
The Diseases of Women and Children, (1860) by Gunning S.
Bedford, M.D., University of New York
A copy of this text book is
listed in the
Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues or the
list of medical
textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army
Medical Department.
Additional information on
Gunning Bedford, M.D.
and his relationship to Civil War era education. Textbooks
on Obstetrics and Children were present in the Surgeon General's
Office library during the Civil War, thus their presence
in this collection.
Treatise on
Obstetrics: The Science and Art, (1856, third edition)
by Charles D. Meigs, M.D.
A copy of this text book is
listed in the
Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues or the
list of medical
textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army
Medical Department.
Additional information on Charles D. Meigs, M.D.
Textbooks on Obstetrics and Children were present in the
Surgeon General's Office library during the Civil
War, thus their presence in this collection.
Charles D. Meigs was
a great man in spite of the fact that he was usually on
the wrong side. There is much truth in this statement,
and when we consider the strenuous opposition of this
leader in obstetrics to the use of anesthesia in
childbirth, the transmissibility of puerperal infection,
and the operation of ovariotomy, it is not difficult to
understand why so much of his good has been interred in
his bones. In spite of this, however, we shall make no
mistake in saying that Charles Delucena Meigs is a truly
great figure in American Obstetrics.
789 pp. 9.1 x 6.
Numerous illustrations. CONTENTS: Part One - Anatomy of
the Parts Concerned in the Acts of Reproduction; Chapter
I. Of the Pelvis; II. Mechanism of the Pelvis -
Mechanism of Labor, as it Depends Upon the Relaxations
of the Pelvis and the Fetal Head; III. Of the Child's
Head and other Presenting Parts; IV. The Organs of
Generation; V. The Ovaries Described; Part Two - The
Physiology of Reproduction; VI. Menstruation; VII.
Causes and Treatment of Amenorrhoea; VIII. Pregnancy;
Part Three - The Therapeutics and Surgery of Midwifery;
IX. Labor; X. Conduct of a Labor; XI. Face Presentation;
XII. Presentation of Pelvic Extremity of the Child;
XIII. Preternatural Labors - Causes; XIV. Deformed
Pelvis; XV. The Forceps; XVI. Embryotomy; XVII.
Induction of Premature Labor; XVIII. Inversion of the
Womb; XIX. Child-Bed Fever; XX. Of Atresia Vaginae; XXI.
On Ergot; XXII. Of Milk-Fever; Part Four - The History
and Diseases of the Young Child; XXIII. Visibility of
the Child - Establishment of the Respiratory Life; XXIV.
Cyanosis Neonatorum; XXV"
Owner
signature
Blanchard
and Lea, Philadelphia, 1856. Leather. . 758
pages including index plus 32 page catalog
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Treatise on
Diseases of Children, (1853), fourth edition) by D.
Francis Condie, M.D.
A copy of this text book is
listed in the
Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues or the
list of medical
textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army
Medical Department.
Additional
information on D. Francis Condie, M.D.
Textbooks on Obstetrics and Children were present in the
Surgeon General's Office library during the Civil
War, thus their presence in this collection.
CONDIE D. F MD, A
PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OP CHILDREN Fifth
edition revised and augmented In one large volume 8vo
leather of over 750 pages $3 25, 1859.
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Publishers review 1852, 1865
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Diseases of the
Liver and Biliary Passages, by William Thomson, M.D. and
Illustrations of Diseases of the Liver and Spleen by William
Twining, (1842)
A copy of this text book is
listed in the
Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues or the
list of medical
textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army
Medical Department.
Phila,
Babington & Haswell,1842. FIRST AMER. ED. 339pp. + ads. 8vo,
calf. ,
Also, Clinical Illustrations of
Diseases of the Liver and Spleen by William Twining.
William Thomson was a Scots physician noted for his lectures
on the practice of physic. He was a member of the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons. Twining was an army
surgeon, a member of the Royal College who practiced in
India. The first 16 pages comprise the Jan.1842 issue of The
Bulletin of Medical Science.
  
Retrospective of Practical Medicine and
Surgery (A half-yearly journal) by W. & J. Braithwaite, M.D., (1861, 1862)
A copy of these text-books are
listed as being in the Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues of 1865.
Examples of the index from the 1862 issue
are posted as an example of the topics presented each year.
(1861 issue)
(1862 issue)
1862 Index of topics
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