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1918 CE

#13905

Die Stacheldraht-Krankheit: Beiträge zur Psychologie des Kriegsgefangenen. 2 vols.

Translated into English as Barbed wire disease: A psychological study of prisoners of war. Translated from the German, with additions. London: Bale & Danielson, 1919.

1803 CE

#12942

Rélation historique et chirurgicale de I’expedition de l'Armée d’Orient, en Egypte et en Syrie.

Larrey's history of his experiences with Napoleon and Napoleon's armies during the Egypt campaign. Includes a reprint of Larrey's treatise on trachoma, which was first published at Napoleon's press in Cairo. Digital f…

2013 CE

#10414

"Good tuberculosis men": The Army Medical Department's stuggle with tuberculosis.

Digital facsimile from cs.amedd.army.mil at this link.

1987 CE

#13165

"I have done my duty." Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Edited by Sue M. Goldie.

Nightingale's correspondence, 1854-1856.

1919 CE

#11031

“Album de la guerre”: Five hundred photographs, seventy drawings and thirteen articles by members of Base Hospital no. 4, U.S.A. . . . and Mobile Hospital no. 5, U.S.A. . . . covering a period of twenty-three months from May 8th, 1917 to April 8th, 1919.

1942 CE

#2137.30

A bibliography of aviation medicine.

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…

2010 CE

#8013

A contemporary history of the U. S. Army Nurse Corps.

From the end of the Vietnam War to the year 2000.

1776 CE

#2156

A discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners.

Besides his pioneer work in military medicine, Pringle did much to improve the conditions of sailors afloat. See also Nos. 2150 & 3714.

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…

2017 CE

#10971

A heavy reckoning: War, medicine and survival in Afghanistan and beyond.

2009 CE

#9225

A history of dentistry in the U.S. Army to World War II.

The development of military dentistry in the United States, from beginnings in the early 17th century, through the professionalization of dentistry in the 19th century, dental care on both sides of the Civil War, the …

1995 CE

#7888

A history of medicine in the early U.S. Navy.

1974 CE

#8819

A history of the Army Medical Department. 2 vols.

1929 CE

#2186

A history of the Medical Department of the United States Army.

1927 CE

#10150

A history of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1796-1919.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

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…

1891 CE

#10152

A manual of saddles and collars, sore backs and sore shoulders.

"The subject of saddles and sore backs [of horses] is such an important one that I have considered the lectures delivered by me on the subject, in this school, might be of more permanent value if printed. "Every offic…

1870 CE

#2170

A method of antiseptic treatment applicable to wounded soldiers in the present war.

In 1870, for the first time on the battlefield, French and German army surgeons applied antiseptic methods in the management of wounds. Lister published the above short paper describing the simplest method he could de…

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.

1786 CE

#2137.2

A narrative of the two aerial voyages of Dr. Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard; with meteorological observations and remarks.

The first flight by a physician, the first crossing of the English channel by balloon, and the first international flight. Jeffries, an American, made a series of carefully planned scientific observations, emphasizing…

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.

1915 CE

#5385

A note on a relapsing febrile illness of unknown origin.

First reported case of “trench fever”.

1793 CE

#13619

A paper on the prevention and treatment of the disorders of the seamen and soldiers in Bengal. Presented to the Honourable Court of East-India Directors, in the year 1791.

Murray was in the Bengal Medical Service from 1782 to 1802. This was his report to the Directors of the East-India Company. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1779 CE

#9501

A physical journal kept on board H. M. Ship Rainbow during three voyages to the coast of Africa and the West Indies, in the years 1772, 1773, and 1774: To which is prefixed, a particular account of the remitting fever which happened on board of His Majesty's Sloop Weasel, on that coast, in 1769.

1816 CE

#11143

A practical account of the Mediterranean fever, as it appeared in the ships and hospitals of His Majesty's fleet on that station: With cases and dissections. To which are added facts and observations, illustrative of the causes, symptoms and treatment comprehending the history of the fever in the fleet, during the years 1810, 1811, 1813, and of the Gibraltar and Carthagena fevers.

"Burnett in 1816 described an epidemic of a short term fever occurring among the Naval Forces engaged in the Siege of Malta in 1799, and this fever was almost certainly phlebotomus" (Coulter, The Royal Naval Medical S…

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…

1941 CE

#2187

A short history of nautical medicine.

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.

1820 CE

#4445

A treatise on gun-shot wounds. 2nd. ed.

Successful amputation at the hip-joint, after the battle of Waterloo, 7 July, 1815.

1794 CE

#2283

A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds.

It was while serving with the army at Belle Isle during the Seven Years’ War that Hunter collected the material for his epoch-making book on inflammation and gunshot wounds. His studies on inflammation in partic…

1791 CE

#10111

A treatise on the fevers of Jamaica, with some observations on the intermitting fever of America, and an appendix containing some hints on the means of preserving the health of soldiers in hot climates.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive 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.

1912 CE–1914 CE

#10151

A veterinary history of the war in South Africa, 1899-1902. Supplement to: Veterinary record May 25, 1912-Sept. 26, 1914.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1949 CE

#6596

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

2016 CE

#9554

African American doctors of World War I: The lives of 104 volunteers.

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.

1999 CE

#9224

African-American dental surgeons and the U.S. Army Dental Corps: A struggle for acceptance, 1901-1919.

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link. (This study does not seem to have been formally published; WorldCat is uncertain of its publication date.)

1918 CE

#8107

Air service medical manual.

The first U. S. work dedicated to the medical aspects of military pilot selection. According to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, this manual was written by William Holland Wilmer, then director of the Medic…

2007 CE

#9620

Allenby's military medicine: Life and death in World War I Palestine.

2019 CE

#11367

Allied medicine in the Great War: The medical front and the people who fought.

1923 CE

#9077

American homeopathy in the world war. Edited by Frederick M. Dearborn.

Reflective of the extent to which homeopathy remained in mainstream American medicine in the period immediately after World War I. Reproduces at the front of the book a letter from President Warren G. Harding congratu…

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.