Surgeon General's Office Library Catalogues of the Civil War Medical Department's 1840 List   SGO Library Printed 1864 List  SGO Library Printed 1865 List The printed catalogues of the Surgeon-General's Office Library are the basis for the Civil War medical textbook collection and an accurate reflection of Civil War medicine as practice during the war years 1861-1865.  The exact publications (date and edition) as shown in the catalogues are the issues presented in this collection.  The reason for using the catalogued issues is these were the authors who the U.S. Army Medical Department and SGO surgeons thought worthy of being in the library and the ones used for distribution to the U. S. Army surgeons during the Civil War. The Surgeon General's Library, the collection that would in 1956 become the National Library of Medicine, was arguably the Medical Department's most valuable and lasting contribution to medical science developed in the decades immediately following the Civil War. As new developments in the world of medical science began to grow in number with great rapidity, the nation's best-educated physicians came increasingly to rely on medical libraries, particularly the Surgeon General's Library, for the information that kept them abreast of the work of their colleagues around the world. Much of the library's growth in size and fame resulted from the work of Billings. Working aggressively and imaginatively to increase the library's holdings, he made the most of the meager funds allotted that institution by astute buying and by trading copies of the departments various publications for the books, journals, reports, manuscripts, letters, pamphlets, and portraits he believed it should have. The following links are to copies of the first (1840) handwritten catalogue, extremely rare copies of the first printed (1864), and the second printed (1865) catalogues which were produced for the Surgeon General's Office Library before and during the Civil War.  Few people have seen these catalogues as only a small number of copies survived and are not available to the general public.  The textbooks were selected by the Surgeon General's Office staff for use by the U. S. Army Medical and Hospital Department prior to, but mainly during the Civil War.  These super rare printed catalogues (few examples exist) and publications by the U. S. Army Medical Department, are the basis for the collection.  Where possible, the exact same edition is in this collection as the one shown in the Medical Department's SGO catalogue.  If not the same edition then the intent is to obtain one published during the Civil War.  Any help in adding to this collection would be greatly appreciated. Surgeon General's Office library 1840 hand-written catalogue   The first handwritten catalog Surgeon General's Office library 1864 printed catalogue   The first printed catalogue Surgeon General's Office Library 1865 printed catalogue    The second printed catalogue Additional information on medical textbooks used during the Civil War Publications & text-books ordered by the U.S. Army Medical Department during the Civil War Article on early American Medical Libraries. Ciba article on Civil War medical education Ciba article on Civil War medicine during the Civil War Information on the Surgeon General's Office Library by Wyndam Miles   PDF of Information on the Surgeon General's Office Library by Wyndam Miles Reynolds Library Civil War era list of books  Medical Book Collection   Index Sorted by Page or Index Sorted by Author    Collection Pages: 1 | 1a | 2 | 2a | 3 | 3a | 4 | 4a | 5 | 5a | 6   | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9a | 10