North America

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…

1863 CE

#7813

Notes and observations on army surgery.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863 CE

#7738

Outlines of the chief camp diseases of the United States Army as observed during the present war.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863 CE

#1865.1

Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural: Being also a medical botany of the Confederate States; with practical information on the useful properties of the trees, plants and shrubs.

The first extensive treatise on the botany of the Southern States of the US and the only Confederate manual of materia medica. This is also a manual of “survival information”, teaching how live off the lan…

1863 CE

#14228

The principles and practice of surgery, embracing minor and oeprative surgery; with a bibliographical index of American surgical writers from the year 1783 to 1860. Illustrated by 400 wood-cuts and nearly 1000 engravings on steel. 2 vols.

The most extensively illustrated American manual of surgery issued during the U.S. 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…

1864 CE

#4334

Lectures on orthopaedic surgery.

Before emigrating to America, Bauer studied under Stromeyer. Hugh Owen Thomas considered him “the first exponent of American orthopaedics”. This is the first comprehensive American textbook of orthopedics.…

1864 CE

#145.59

Man and nature; or, physical geography as modified by human action.

“The fountainhead of the conservation movement” (Mumford). This is a comprehensive scientific account of humanity's enormous and often destructive impact on the physical world. Marsh warned of the dangers …

1864 CE

#11578

Medical diagnosis with special reference to practical medicine: A guide to the knowledge and discrimination of diseases.

During the Civil War Da Costa was an acting surgeon in Philadelphia where he supervised a ward for patients with heart disease. In this book he presented the first description of a condition that he called "irritable …

1864 CE

#11905

Narrative of privations and sufferings of the United States officers and soldiers while prisoners of war in the hands of the rebel authorities. Being the report of a commission of inquiry, appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission. With an appendix, containing the testimony. Edited by Valentine Mott.

Includes four engravings based upon photographs of Union soldiers who were emaciated following imprisonment at Belle Isle. The contributors included Dorothea Dix and several military surgeons, including William Ely, G…

1864 CE

#8994

The female spy of the union army. The thrilling adventures, experiences, and escapes of a woman nurse, spy, and scout, in hospitals, camps and battlefields.

Digital facsimile of a reprint of the 1864 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Reissued in 1865 as Nurse and spy in the Union Army: Containing the adventures and experience of a woman in hospitals, camps, …

1864 CE

#7331

The gray substance of the medulla oblongata and trapezium.

The first American medical book illustrated with photomechanically reproduced plates. Oliver Wendell Holmes praised the book for its remarkable photomicrographs, which may be the first published of brain cross-section…

1864 CE

#6185

The principles and practice of obstetrics.

Hodge, nearly blind, dictated this superb textbook from memory to his son. It includes his concept of “parallel planes” at the various levels of the pelvic canal, and his placental forceps for the completi…

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…

1865 CE

#9529

Reports on the extent and nature of the materials available for the preparation of a medical and surgical history of the Rebellion.

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…

1866 CE

#13196

A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine.

Digital facsimile of the 1868 third edition from Google Books at this link.

1866 CE

#11487

Asiatic cholera: Its origin, history, and progress, for over two hundred years, and the devastations it has caused in the East and West; Its ravages in Europe and America in 1831-2, in 1848-9, in 1854-5, and in 1865-6 with a full description of the causes, nature, and character of the disease, its means of propagation, whether by the atmosphere or by contagion; its premonitory and distinctive symptoms; the best known means of preventing its attack both in communities and individuals; and the most effectual remedies for it according to the celebrated physicians who have treated It; Together with simple and plain directions for the care of those who from any cause can not obtain medical aid.

Digital facsimile from Google Books 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.

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.

1866 CE

#9214

Medical recollections of the Army of the Potomac.

Letterman originated modern methods for medical organization in armies and on the battlefield. His system of organization enabled thousands of wounded men to be recovered and treated during the American Civil War. Dig…

1866 CE–1868 CE

#12476

The new and heretofore unfigured species of the birds of North America. 2 vols.

Elliot described his aims for this work in the preface: "Since the time of Wilson and Audubon, no work has been published upon American Ornithology, containing life-size representations of the various species that hav…

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.

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.

1867 CE

#10603

Diseases of the heart: Their diagnosis and treatment.

The first medical book, as distinct from a pamphlet, that was written and published in California. See Shapiro, "California's 'first' medical book. David Wooster's Diseases of the heart (1867)," Calif. Med., 108 (1968…

1867 CE

#10718

Mechanical therapeutics. A practical treatise on surgical apparatus, appliances, and elementary operations; embracing bandaging, minor surgery, orthopraxy, and the treatment of fractures and dislocations.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1867 CE

#2080

Micro-chemistry of poisons.

The first American book entirely devoted to toxicology and an important contribution to the identification of poisons.

1867 CE

#6862

The application of the principles and practice of homoeopathy to obstetrics, and the disorders peculiar to women and young children.

Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link.

1867 CE

#13345

Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1867 CE

#4423

Treatment of fractures of the lower extremity, by use of the anterior suspensory apparatus.

1867 CE

#7748

Woman's work in the Civil War: A record of heroism, patriotism and patience.

Details the work of women in the American Civil War in the fields of nursing, supply and sanitary organization (i.e. the Sanitary Commission) with biographies of notable women. Digital facsimile from the Internet Arch…

1868 CE

#6060

A practical treatise on diseases of women.

The most complete and systematic treatise on the subject in its day.

1868 CE

#12887

Dental materia medica. Compiled by James W. White.

The first American treatise on materia medica written specifically for dentists. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust 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…

1868 CE

#12404

Memoir of Valentine Mott, M.D., LL.D., Professor of surgery in the University of the City of New York; member of the Institute of France.

An insightful biography written by a colleague in surgery. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1868 CE

#6058

Vesico-vaginal fistula from parturition and other causes: with cases of recto-vaginal fistula.

A comprehensive account of the management of vesicovaginal fistula based on Sims’s technique.

1869 CE

#3684.1

A treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws, and associated parts.

The first modern textbook of oral surgery. Garretson received the first official hospital appointment as “oral surgeon”. He helped to establish oral surgery as a specialty.

1869 CE

#11305

Medical history of the year 1868, in California. A paper read before the "Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement," February 16th, 1869. And published by order of the society.

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

1869 CE

#2028.58

Plain rules for the restoration of persons apparently dead from drowning.

Howard’s method of artificial respiration is taught for resuscitation from drowning.

1869 CE

#4424

The mechanism of dislocation and fracture of the hip. With the reduction of the dislocations by the flexion method.

Bigelow was the first to describe in detail the mechanism of the iliofemoral (Bigelow’s) ligament, and to show its importance in the reduction of dislocation by the flexion method.

1869 CE

#11703

Woman: Her rights, wrongs, privileges, and responsibilities . . . Her relations to man, physiological, social, moral, and intellectual: Her ability to fill the enlarged sphere of duties and privileges claimed for her: Her true position in education, professional life, employments, and wages considered. Woman suffrage, its folly and inexpediency, and the injury and deterioration which it would cause in her character shown . . .

Also published in Cincinnati, Ohio by Howe's Subscription Book Concern, 1869. The author, a physician and semi-popular writer, appears mainly to be writing in opposition to woman suffrage or to granting to women any f…

1870 CE

#7601

A descriptive catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1870 CE

#442

A sketch of the early history of practical anatomy. The introductory address to the course of lectures on anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy.

Reprinted in 1874 by Lippincott as a separate pamphlet, and in Keen’s Addresses and other papers, Philadelphia, 1905.

1870 CE

#13077

Naval hygiene, by Joseph Wilson, Surgeon United States Navy: With an Appendix: Moving wounded men on shipboards by Albert C. Gorgas, Surgeon United States Navy.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1870 CE

#10448

Report on barracks and hospitals, with descriptions of military posts.

Describes military posts in all regions of the U.S., including the Western territories, with details of their hospitals, barracks, etc. In a 1928 talk at Mayo Clinic historian Fielding Garrison wrote about this work, …

1870 CE

#13032

The boys in white: The experience of a hospital agent in and around Washington.

An account of the author's experiences as a nurse working in Washington, D.C. hospitals during the U.S. Civil War. Wheelock became known as the "Florence Nightingale of Michigan." Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trus…

1870 CE–1888 CE

#2171

The medical and surgical history of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65. 6 vols.

UNITED STATES. War Dept. Surgeon General

Written by Woodward, Smart, Otis, and Huntington under the direction of Joseph K. Barnes, Surgeon General of the Army. This massive, graphically illustrated set has been called the “first comprehensive American …

1871 CE

#1996.4

A practical treatise on the medical and surgical uses of electricity, including localized and general electrization.

Beard and Rockwell were the leading American electrotherapists of the 19th century. This is the most influential American treatise ever published on electrotherapy. It is of especial value today for its comprehensive …

1871 CE

#12899

Emergencies and how to treat them: The etiology, pathology, and treatment of the accidents, diseases, and cases of poisoning, which demand prompt action.

A “guide in the treatment of cases of emergency occurring in medical, surgical, or obstetrical practice” (p. 3), covering such topics as hemorrhage, burns, loss of consciousness, asphyxia, sunstroke, poiso…