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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

American (U.S.) CIVIL WAR MEDICINE

Exhibiting 76 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1863 CEA 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.
BOWDITCH, Henry Ingersoll (1808 – 1892)
BOWDITCH, Henry Ingersoll (1808 – 1892)
1863 CEA catalogue of surgical instruments, apparatus, appliances, etc. Manufactured and sold by John Weiss & Son.
JOHN WEISS & SON
1866 CEA 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.
CUMMING, Kate (1830 – 1909)
CUMMING, Kate (1830 – 1909)
1861 CEA 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, Charles Thomas (1805 – 1880)
JACKSON, Charles Thomas (1805 – 1880)
1863 CEA 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.
BARTHOLOW, Roberts (1831 – 1904)
BARTHOLOW, Roberts (1831 – 1904)
1863 CEA manual of military surgery, prepared for the use of the Confederate States Army by order of the Surgeon-General [Samuel P. Moore].
MOORE, Samuel Preston (1813 – 1889)
MOORE, Samuel Preston (1813 – 1889)
1861 CEA 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.
CHISOLM, Julian John (1830 – 1903)
1861 CEA manual of military surgery: or, hints on the emergencies of field, camp and hospital practice.
GROSS, Samuel David (1805 – 1884)
GROSS, Samuel David (1805 – 1884)
1860 CEA new instrument for the treatment of fractures of the lower extremity.
SMITH, Nathan Ryno (1797 – 1877)
SMITH, Nathan Ryno (1797 – 1877)
1863 CEA 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.
GOLDSMITH, Middleton (1818 – 1887)
1861 CEA treatise on gun-shot wounds: written for and dedicated to the surgeons of the Confederate States Army.
SCHUPPERT, Moritz (1817 – 1887)
SCHUPPERT, Moritz (1817 – 1887)
1988 CEA vast sea of misery: A history and guide to the Union and Confederate field hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1-November 20, 1863.
COCO, Gregory Ashton (1946 – 2009)
2014 CEAfrican American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.
BUTTS, Heather
1883 CEAn 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.
WELLS, John Wesley
WELLS, John Wesley STRAIT, Newton Allen ( – 1922)
1863 CEAn epitome of practical surgery for field and hospital.
WARREN, Edward (1828 – 1893)
2005 CEBleeding blue and gray: Civil War surgery and the evolution of American medicine.
RUTKOW, Ira Michael (1948 – )
1867 CECatalogue 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.
WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier (1833 – 1884)
WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier (1833 – 1884) CURTIS, Edward (1838 – 1912)
1866 CECatalogue of the surgical section of the United States Army Medical Museum.
WOODHULL, Alfred Alexander (1837 – 1921)
WOODHULL, Alfred Alexander (1837 – 1921)
1994 CECivil War medicine: care and comfort of the wounded.
DENNEY, Robert E. ( – 2002)
2015 CECivil War nurse narratives 1863-1870.
WARDROP, Daneen
1980 CECivil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.
ROPES, Hannah (1809 – )
ROPES, Hannah (1809 – ) BRUMGARDT, John R.
2004 CECivil War pharmacy: A history of drugs, drug supply and provision, and therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy.
FLANNERY, Michael A.
FLANNERY, Michael A.
1996 CEConfederate hospitals on the move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee.
STOUT, Samuel Hollingsworth (1822 – 1903)
STOUT, Samuel Hollingsworth (1822 – 1903) SCHROEDER-LEIN, Glenna R. (1951 – )
1864 CE​–1865 CEConfederate States Medical and Surgical Journal.
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1867 CEContributions 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.
FLINT (ELDER), Austin (1812 – 1886)
1968 CEDisease in the Civil War: Natural biological warfare in 1861-1865.
STEINER, Paul Eby (1902 – 1978)
1952 CEDoctors in blue. The medical history of the Union Army in the [United States] civil war.
ADAMS, George Worthington (1905 – 1981)
1958 CEDoctors in gray: the Confederate Medical Service.
CUNNINGHAM, Horace Herndon (1913 – 1969)
1998 CEGangrene and glory: Medical care during the American Civil War.
FREEMON, Frank R.
1864 CEGunshot wounds and other injuries of nerves.
MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829 – 1914)
MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829 – 1914)
KEEN, William Williams (1837 – 1932)
KEEN, William Williams (1837 – 1932) MOREHOUSE, George Read (1829 – 1905)
1861 CEHandbook 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.
TRIPLER, Charles Stuart (1806 – 1865)
TRIPLER, Charles Stuart (1806 – 1865) BLACKMAN, George Curtis (1819 – 1871)
1866 CEHistory of the United States Sanitary Commission: being the general report of its work during the War of the Rebellion.
STILLÉ, Charles Janeway (1819 – 1899)
1868 CEHospital days.
WOOLSEY, Jane Stuart (1830 – )
WOOLSEY, Jane Stuart (1830 – )
1863 CEHospital sketches.
ALCOTT, Louisa May (1832 – 1888)
ALCOTT, Louisa May (1832 – 1888)
1863 CEHospital transports: A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862.
OLMSTED, Frederick Law (1822 – 1903)
OLMSTED, Frederick Law (1822 – 1903)
1860 CEIllustrated wholesale catalogue of surgical and dental instruments, elastic trusses, medical saddle bags, abdominal supporters, shoulder braces and druggists sundries, offered by Snowden & Brother.
SNOWDON & BROTHER
2008 CEIntensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.
HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
1865 CELa 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.
EVANS, Thomas Wilberger (1823 – 1897)
EVANS, Thomas Wilberger (1823 – 1897)
2014 CELearning from the wounded: The Civil War and the rise of American medical science.
DEVINE, Shauna
2012 CELincoln and medicine.
SCHROEDER-LEIN, Glenna R. (1951 – )
1956 CELincoln's fifth wheel: the political history of the U. S. Sanitary Commission.
MAXWELL, William Quentin
2013 CEMarrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.
HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
1864 CEMedical diagnosis with special reference to practical medicine: A guide to the knowledge and discrimination of diseases.
DA COSTA, Jacob Mendes (1833 – 1900)
DA COSTA, Jacob Mendes (1833 – 1900)
1977 CEMedical history of a Civil War regiment: Disease in the sixty-fifth United States Colored Infantry.
STEINER, Paul Eby (1902 – 1978)
1866 CEMedical recollections of the Army of the Potomac.
LETTERMAN, Jonathan (1824 – 1872)
LETTERMAN, Jonathan (1824 – 1872)
1968 CEMedical-military portraits of Union and Confederate generals.
STEINER, Paul Eby (1902 – 1978)
1962 CEMedicines for the Union Army: the United States Army Laboratories during the Civil War.
SMITH, George Winston
SMITH, George Winston
1993 CEMicrobes and minie balls: An annotated bibliography of Civil War medicine.
FREEMON, Frank R.
1888 CEMy story of the war: The Civil War memories of the famous nurse, relief organizer and suffragette.
LIVERMORE, Mary Ashton Rice (1820 – 1905)
LIVERMORE, Mary Ashton Rice (1820 – 1905)
1864 CENarrative 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.
MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)
MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865) & et al.