North America
3,694 entries published in North America.
1860
#4420
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations.
The first comprehensive treatise in English on the treatment of fractures and dislocations. See No. 1742.
1860
#6043.1
On diseases peculiar to women, including displacements of the uterus.
Chapter 5 includes a lengthy description of the “Hodge pessary”. See No. 6185.
1860
#6649.9
Medicine as a profession for women.
1860
#3459.1
A practical treatise on the aetiology, pathology, and treatment of the congenital malformations of the rectum and anus.
The first systematic treatise on the subject, and a landmark in pediatric surgery. Includes an early account of colostomy and one of the earliest histories of that procedure. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at …
1860
#9584
Surgical and practical observations on the diseases of the human foot, with instructions for their treatment. To which is added advice on the management of the hand.
A controversial, and not necessarily original work, notable as having been written by Abraham Lincoln's chiropodist (podiatrist), who gained the confidence of Lincoln and served as Lincoln's representative to the Jewi…
1860
#10337
Ichthyology of South Carolina. Vol. 1 (All Published).
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1860
#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 …
1860
#14204
A medico-legal treatise on malpractice and medical evidence, comprising the elements of medical jurisprudence.
The first treatise on malpractice published in the United States and the first book to provide observations on the physician as an expert witness in malpractice cases. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at …
1861
#421
An elementary treatise on human anatomy.
Leidy illustrated this book himself. He was professor of anatomy at Philadelphia and the leading American anatomist of his time.
1861
#3267
The breath of life; or mal-respiration, and its effects upon the enjoyments and life of man.
Catlin, the famous American artist, was the first in America to call attention to the bad effects of mouth-breathing. He based his book on observations of native American practices, and illustrated his book with humor…
1861
#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.
1861
#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
#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.
1861
#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…
1861
#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 …
1861
#12813
Lives of eminent American physicians and surgeons of the nineteenth century. Edited by Samuel D. Gross.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1862
#7737
The hospital steward's manual; for the instruction of hospital stewards, wardmasters, and attendants, in their several duties; prepared in strict accordance with existing regulations and the customs of service in the armies of the United States of America, and rendered authoritative by order of the Surgeon-General.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Arhive at this link.
1862
#7817
Regulations for the Medical Department of the C. S. Army.
Electronic edition from unc.edu, Documenting the American South, at this link.
1862
#10440
Chinese immigration and the physiological causes of the decay of a nation.
Medical justification for racism, racial prejudice, and xenophobia in its purest sense. The author, a physician, also published several works of conventional medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at th…
1862
#11311
Health: Its friends and foes.
This work, which promoted vegetarianism and abstinence from tobacco along with other hygiene and overall health advice, was written as the author stated in his preface, "to meet the comprehension of the general reader…
1863
#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 land and how to…
1863
#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
#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…
1863
#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
#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
#7812
An epitome of practical surgery for field and hospital.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1863
#7813
Notes and observations on army surgery.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1863
#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
#11318
Catalogue of the New-York Museum of Anatomy No. 618 Broadway, New-York. Principals: Drs. Jordan & Beck No. 40 Bond Street. Open daily, for gentlemn only, from 10 A.M. till 10 P. M. Admission, 25 cents.
30-page catalogue of a commercial medical museum "for gentlemen only" and clearly operated as an advertisement for Jordan and Beck's medical practice. A great deal of the displayed material was intended to be titillat…
1863
#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…
1863
#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
#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
#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
#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 of the reckl…
1864
#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. First publi…
1864
#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 completion of aborti…
1864
#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 –1865
#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…
1864
#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
#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
#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…
1865
#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.
c. 1865
#11316
Hand-book & descriptive catalogue of the Pacific Museum of Anatomy and Natural Science, now open at the Eureka Theatre, Montgomery St., between California and Pine, San Francisco.
A commercial medical and "natural science" museum operated by Jordan. This may have been the earliest commercial medical museum in California. Pages 50 onward describe what Jordan called the "Pathological Room, For re…
1866
#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
#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
#10375
Catalogue of the surgical section of the United States Army Medical Museum.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1866
#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 –1868
#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…
1866
#13196
A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine.
Digital facsimile of the 1868 third edition from Google Books at this link.
1866
#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…