Civil War Era Civilian Surgical and Medical Texts
Authors:
Quain, Joseph Leidy,
Gross, Maclise, Wilson, Bennett
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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.
Human Anatomy by
Jones Quain, M. D., First American Edition, Edited by Joseph Leidy, M.
D. (1849, in two volumes)
A copy of this text book is
listed in the 1864 Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues or the
list of medical
textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army
Medical Department.
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information
about Dr. Leidy
JONES QUAIN, MD; HUMAN ANATOMY; Revised with Notes and
Additions by Joseph Leidy,
MD, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania.
Complete in two large octavo volumes leather of about thirteen hundred
pages. Beautifully illustrated with over five hundred engravings
on wood. $6.00, 1861
Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1849. Hard Cover. First
American Edition, from the Fifth London Edition; thoroughly illustrated.
The first systemic treatise of Anatomy in the English language,
containing the history of the ossification and development of the
individual bones of the skeleton.
Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy, (1861, 1st edition) by Joseph
Leidy, M.D.
Leidy was conceded to
be the highest authority on the subject of human anatomy in this
country, drew the 392 illustrations himself. During the Civil War, he
served as acting asst. surgeon, 1862-1865, and did about 60 autopsies.
J.B Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1861. Full-Leather. 8vo -
over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 664 pages
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Univ. of Pennsylvania
lecture cards signed by Joseph Leidy, M.D. 1868-69; 1862
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Owner signature: 1862, John M.
Dickson, M.D. classmate of William Alexander Hammond, M.D., Surgeon General U.S. Army during the Civil War.
John M. Dickson, Asst.
Surgeon, 93rd Pennsylvania, Care A. G., U.S.A. to Oct.
1864; also 213th Infantry. Dr. Dickson and the 93rd were a
Gettysburg Regiment, with the 6th Corps.
John
M. Dickson, 213th Infantry, Surgeon Care Adjutant
General From March 1863.
Name: John Dickson
Death date: Dec 30, 1929
Type of practice: Allopath
States and years of licenses: PA, 1881
Medical school(s): New York University Medical College,
New York: Univ. of City of New York Med. Dept., 1848
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A Manual of General
Anatomy of the Human Body, by S. D. Gross,
M.D. (From the French of Bayle and Hollard), Published by
John Grigg, Philadelphia, (1828, first edition)
This is the first book published by
S. D. Gross, M. D. in 1828, the same year he graduated from
Jefferson Medical College!
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additional
information on Gross.
MANUAL OF GENERAL ANATOMY containing
a concise description of the Elementary Tissues of the Human Body From
the French of A. L. Bayle and H. Hollard By SD Gross M D. This
volume bus been highly approved by many of the principal medical men and
has been recommended by several anatomical teachers. We recommend
this little volume to the anatomical student as it contains an excellent
account of the primitive tissues and will greatly facilitate a knowledge
of what has been too much neglected in this country's general anatomy.
Medical Gazette
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M.D. while at Jefferson Medical College in 1869 |
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Signed by John Fleming, 1840
Maclise's
Surgical Anatomy with Descriptions, 1857, Edited by R.
U. Piper, M.D.
From the English Edition with an
additional plate by Bougery, printed in oil colors,
published in Boston by John P. Jewett and Company.
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Publisher's
description 1865
Boston: John P. Jewett and Co.,
1857., 1857. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to. Unpaginated. 36 plates
printed in oil colors, after Baxter's process with multi-page
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Owner information:
John Myrick Crocker, M. D.
Cause of death: heart disease; (M)
Death date: Oct 6, 1917
Place of death: Cambridge, England
Birth date: 1845
Type of practice: Allopath
Medical school: Harvard Medical School, Boston,
1863-66, (G) |
Owner signature
'J. M. Crocker'
Presented by his
brother, Wm. N. Young, 1863
Additional information on Bostonian John Myrick
Crocker, M. D.
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Diseases of
the Skin, by Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S., (fourth edition 1857)
On Diseases of the Skin
By Erasmus Wilson FRS Fourth American from the Fourth and Enlarged London
Edition Blanchard & Lea, Philadelphia 1857 pp 649 . The American
publishers have issued this new and greatly improved edition of Wilson's
well known treatise in a style worthy of the work. The plates are
published in a separate form and have been rendered more complete by the
addition of those formerly appended to the author's treatise on Syphilis and
Syphilitic Eruptions. Their excellence is universally acknowledged and
we need not add that their study is indispensable in order to thoroughly
understand the text.
The additions and
improvement made in the text may be learned from the Preface of the author
In preparing a Fourth Edition of the DISEASES or THE SKIN. "I have
endeavored to make the work as complete as possible and have contributed
largely my own investigations into the pathology and my personal experience
in the treatment of these diseases I have arranged a new system of
classification founded on the only true practical basis the cause of the
disease and have added several new chapters namely the chapter on
Classification the chapter on the General Pathology of these diseases on the
Furuncular Eruptions and on the diseases of the Nails and Nail follicles To
the chapter on diseases arising from Special External Causes I have added
Mails Ambustio and Gelatio to the chapter on diseases arising from Special
Internal Causes Scrofuloderma and Elephantiasis and to the chapter on the
diseases of the Sebiparous Glands a short article on the Malignant Tubercle
of the Skin I have moreover given the Syphilodermal or Syphilitic Eruptions
a more important position and endeavored to arrange them according to their
forms and the period of the poison in a table of classification.
Finally I have appended to the volume a collection of SELECTED FORMULAE for
the most part consisting of prescriptions which I have found of value in the
treatment of diseases of the skin and to which frequent reference Is made in
the pages of the book The present contains one hundred and sixty six pages
more than the third edition It is printed on good type and on clear white
paper and as might be expected from the abilities of the author and his long
devotion to the study of the subject it presents the most complete summary
of our knowledge of this common but neglected class of diseases
Plates
Illustrative of Wilson on Diseases of the Skin, by E. Wilson (fourth edition
1857)
Clinical Lectures on Principles
of Medicine, by John H. Bennett, M.D., (third edition 1859)
A copy of this text book is
listed in the 1864 Surgeon
General's Office Library Catalogues
Clinical Lectures on the
Principles and Practice of Medicine By John Hughes Bennett MD FRSE
Professor, Third edition New York S. S. & W. Wood, 1859
A new edition of this
valuable work has been on our table for some time its notice delayed from
month to month in the expectation that a friend especially fitted for the
task would prepare a careful analytical review of the book The lengthy
communication of Dr Hibberd last month and the communication of Prof Lawson
in the present issue indirectly places before the profession very sufficient
criticisms of the peculiar views taught by the Edinburgh Professor in his
work We therefore feel that little more is now necessary than to present a
brief bibliographical notice of this a new edition We can not however resist
the desire to express in this connection our conviction that aside from any
peculiar teachings of the author he has presented one of the most attractive
aNd really useful books on clinical medicine of the day Take for instance
the first section of the work the Examination of the Patient how systematic
is the arrangement and how gradually and progressively the reader is
conducted through the various steps Inspection Palpation Percussion
Auscultation The Use of the Microscope Chemical Tests and then as you
progress in this nicely arranged study how beautifully the illustrations
demonstrate the teachings of the context The work meets with a rapid saje
and has already commanded a large share of the attention of the profession
Prof Bennett is an earnest arduous worker in the profession and with his
long clinical experience his opinions are certainly worthy of confidence and
respect He is amongst the men who have been real contributors to medical
science during the past quarter of a century We commend this work to our
readers they will find in it very much that is suggestive very much that is
positively practical and directly available A large (1005 pages)
volume of lectures on general and specialty medicine as practiced in 1859.
Extensive use of drawings of microscopic slides and tissue samples among the
502 illustrations. Published in New York by Samuel S. and William
Wood.
Additional information on
John Bennett and his
contributions to medicine
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