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107 entries match United States [Z01.058] · Military Medicine [G02.403.810.560]

1863 CE

#9161

A brief plea for an ambulance system for the army of the United States, as drawn from the extra sufferings of the late Lieut. Bowditch and a wounded comrade.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863 CE

#10496

A catalogue of surgical instruments, apparatus, appliances, etc. Manufactured and sold by John Weiss & Son.

Though based in England, John Weiss & Son's catalogue offered and illustrated a wide range of equipment that would have been used in the American Civil War or the Crimean War. Facsimile reprint, with Snowdon & Brother…

1942 CE–1943 CE

#12088

A doctor comes to California: The diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-1847. Edited by George Walcott Ames, Jr.

"In 1840, Griffin was appointed assistant surgeon in the Army and served under General William J. Worth in Florida and, with the rank of captain, on the Southwest frontier at Fort Gibson, Griffin came to California fo…

1866 CE

#13706

A journal of hospital life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the end of the war: With sketches of life and character, and brief notices of current events during that period.

"[B]y far the fullest and most informative of narratives of the Confederate women who served as nurses" (In Tall Cotton). Cumming responded to calls for volunteers and worked as a field nurse from 1862 through the end…

1861 CE

#7867

A manual of etherization: Containing directions for the employment of ether, chloroform, and other anaesthetic agents, by inhalation, in surgical operations, Intended for military and naval surgeons, and all who may be exposed to surgical operations, with Instructions for the preparation of ether and chloroform, and for testing them for Impurities. comprising, also, a brief history of the discovery of anaesthesia.

Jackson's most detailed exposition of anesthesia, including a summary of the early history of its discovery, written for American Civil War physicians and surgeons. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this …

1863 CE

#7739

A manual of instructions for enlisting and discharging soldiers. With special reference to the medical examination of recruits, and the detection of disqualifying and feigned diseases.

Digital facsimile of the 1864 printing from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863 CE

#7736

A manual of military surgery, prepared for the use of the Confederate States Army by order of the Surgeon-General [Samuel P. Moore].

". . . confined to those affections most intimately connected with gun-shot wounds and operations, as Shock, Tetanus, Hospital Gangrene, Pyaemia, &c." (from the preface). This is the only extensively illustrated Confe…

1861 CE

#7811

A manual of military surgery: for the use of surgeons in the Confederate army: with an appendix of the rules and regulations of the medical department of the Confederate army.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1861 CE

#7815

A manual of military surgery: or, hints on the emergencies of field, camp and hospital practice.

Digital facsimile of the second edition (1862) from the Hathi Trust at this link. Notably in 1862 this small work written for Union surgeons was reprinted in Richmond, Virginia for the use of Confederate surgeons. The…

1823 CE

#6584.9

A military journal during the American Revolutionary War, from 1775-1783…

The first American medical historian, Thacher gave the best contemporary account of medicine during the Revolutionary War, as well as an important history of the war in general. See No. 6710.

1957 CE

#10993

A navy surgeon in California 1846-1847. The journal of Marius Duvall. Edited by Fred Blackburn Rogers.

1860 CE

#4422

A new instrument for the treatment of fractures of the lower extremity.

Smith devised an anterior or suspensatory splint for use in the treatment of fractures of the femur. The apparatus was heavily used during the U.S. Civil War and was especially valuable in treating compound fractures.

1863 CE

#12167

A report on hospital gangrene, eryipelas and pyaemia, as observed in the departments of the Ohio and the Cumberland, with cases appended. Published by permission of the Surgeon General U.S.A.

Middleton, surgeon in the U.S. Volunteers, recommended the placement of volatile bromine in all patient wards. He developed a method of applying bromine deep into muscular layers after wound debridement then injecting…

1861 CE

#7814

A treatise on gun-shot wounds: written for and dedicated to the surgeons of the Confederate States Army.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1988 CE

#9794

A vast sea of misery: A history and guide to the Union and Confederate field hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1-November 20, 1863.

1949 CE

#6596

Aesculapius comes to the Colonies. The story of the early days of medicine in the thirteen original colonies.

2014 CE

#7754

African American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.

Concerns the role of African American nurses, doctors and surgeons during the American Civil War.

1828 CE

#6710

American medical biography. 2 vols.

Thacher was the first American medical historian. The above biography is a valuable source of information on the early medical history of the United States. Reprinted, New York, Da Capo Press, 1967.

1883 CE

#7816

An Alphabetical list of the battles of the War of the Rebellion: with dates, from Ft. Sumter, S.C., April 12 and 13, 1861, to Kirby Smith's surrender, May 26, 1865. Compiled from the official records of the office of the Adjutant-General and the Surgeon-General, U.SA. by J. W. Wells and N. A. Strait, Revised by Newton A. Strait, with the addition of many incidents of the war, giving the number killed, wounded and missing in each of the important battles, Union troops engaged, names of the Generals killed and wounded in both armies; also the total number of enlistments, number discharged, number wounded, number missing, number of deaths, number killed in battle....And a roster of all the regimental surgeons and assistant surgeons of the late war and hospital service.

This was the most complete edition; prior editions were issued in 1875 and 1882. In 1990 Norman Publishing of San Francisco reprinted the 1883 edition with a new index to surgeons and an introduction by Ira M. Rutkow.…

1863 CE

#7812

An epitome of practical surgery for field and hospital.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1850 CE

#10295

An historical sketch of the state of medicine in the American Colonies, from their first settlement to the period of the Revolution.

A pioneering historical interpretation of the development of medicine in the 13 colonies up to the American Revolution. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. This is the second, significantly expan…

2005 CE

#7416

Bleeding blue and gray: Civil War surgery and the evolution of American medicine.

1867 CE

#10369

Catalogue of the medical and microscopical sections of the United States Army Medical Museum. Catalogue of the medical section... prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Woodward. Catalogue of the microscopical section...by Brevet Major Edward Curtis.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1866 CE

#10375

Catalogue of the surgical section of the United States Army Medical Museum.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1994 CE

#7421

Civil War medicine: care and comfort of the wounded.

2015 CE

#9000

Civil War nurse narratives 1863-1870.

Examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, including Louisa May Alcott, Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hos…

1980 CE

#8999

Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.

2004 CE

#9766

Civil War pharmacy: A history of drugs, drug supply and provision, and therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy.

1996 CE

#10288

Confederate hospitals on the move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee.

1864 CE–1865 CE

#7740

Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal.

Confederate States of America, Surgeon-General's Office

Issued monthly from January 1864 to February 1865. (Ordinarily this bibliography does not cite complete runs of periodicals; however, because the Confederate States of America issued so few medical publications, and t…

1867 CE

#11596

Contributions relating to the causation and prevention of disease, and to camp diseases; together with a report of the diseases, etc., among the prisoners at Andersonville, GA. Edited by Austin Flint.

Includes contributions by Roberts Bartholow, Jacob Mendez DaCosta, Paul Eve, Frank Hamilton, Joseph Jones, S. Wier Mitchell, etc. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1874 CE

#6585

Contributions to the annals of medical progress and medical education in the United States before and during the War of Independence.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1778 CE

#2157

Directions for preserving the health of soldiers: recommended to the consideration of the officers of the Army of the United States. Published by order of the Board of War.

A reprint from the Philadelphia Packet, No. 284. The pamphlet was reprinted by the Massachusetts Temperance Alliance in Boston, 1865, for distribution to the Union soldiers.

1968 CE

#10802

Disease in the Civil War: Natural biological warfare in 1861-1865.

1952 CE

#2187.1

Doctors in blue. The medical history of the Union Army in the [United States] civil war.

1958 CE

#2188.1

Doctors in gray: the Confederate Medical Service.

1937 CE

#8594

Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.

Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.

2006 CE

#8596

Dr. Franklin's medicine

The history of medicine, and Franklin's involvements in it, within the context of his life and career.

1906 CE

#9220

Earthquake in California April 18, 1906. Special report of Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, U.S.A. on the relief operations conducted by the military authorities of the United States at San Francisco and other points, with accompanying documents.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1998 CE

#8648

Gangrene and glory: Medical care during the American Civil War.

1864 CE

#2167

Gunshot wounds and other injuries of nerves.

Mitchell, Morehouse, and Keen were army surgeons during the American Civil War; their book was the first exhaustive study of the traumatic neuroses. Includes the first description of ascending neuritis, and also of th…

1861 CE

#7735

Handbook for the military surgeon: Being a compendium of the duties of the medical officer in the field, the sanitary management of the camp, the preparation of food, etc.; with forms for the requisitions for supplies, returns, etc.; the diagnosis and treatment of camp dysentery; and all the important points in war surgery: Including gunshot wounds, amputation, wounds of the chest, abdomen, arteries and head, and the use of chloroform.

Digital facsimile of second edition (1861) from Google Books at this link.

1866 CE

#7799

History of the United States Sanitary Commission: being the general report of its work during the War of the Rebellion.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1868 CE

#8998

Hospital days.

Woolsey participated in the first meetings of the Women's Central Relief Association, which preceded the U.S. Sanitary Commission. In 1863 she became Superintendent of Nurses at Fairfax Seminary Hospital, and served t…

1863 CE

#7419

Hospital sketches.

Digital facsimile of the 1863 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Alcott expanded the work for the edition of 1869. Edited, with an extensive introduction by Bessie Z. Jones (Cambridge: Harvard University …

1863 CE

#13754

Hospital transports: A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862.

During the U.S. Civil War Olmsted, a landscape architect, journalist, social critic and public administrator, was Executive Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commision. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Med…

1860 CE

#10495

Illustrated wholesale catalogue of surgical and dental instruments, elastic trusses, medical saddle bags, abdominal supporters, shoulder braces and druggists sundries, offered by Snowden & Brother.

Snowden & Brother provided an excellent selection of the exact types of equipment used by the Union Army during the Civil War. Facsimile reprint, with John Weiss & Son 1863 catalogue, with a new introduction by James …

2008 CE

#10798

Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.

1865 CE

#11384

La Commission Sanitaire des États-Unis, son origine, son organisation et ses résultats avec une notice sur les hôpitaux militaires aux États-Unis et sur la réforme sanitaire dans les armées Europénnes.

Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.

2014 CE

#10125

Learning from the wounded: The Civil War and the rise of American medical science.

How medical knowledge and experience gained during the U.S. Civil War advanced the development of American medicine after the war ended.