1858 MACLEOD, Sir George Husband Baird (1828 – 1892)
Notes on the surgery of the war in the Crimea, with remarks on the treatment of gunshot wounds.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Reprinted in Richmond, Virginia in 1862 during the American Civil War for the Confederate States Army by J. W. Randolph; digital facsimile of the Richmond edition from…
GMN 9312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11494
1860 SMITH, Nathan Ryno (1797 – 1877)
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.
GMN 4422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6217
1860 SNOWDON & BROTHER
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 …
GMN 10495 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12688
1861 TRIPLER, Charles Stuart (1806 – 1865); BLACKMAN, George Curtis (1819 – 1871)
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.
GMN 7735 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9907
1861 CHISOLM, Julian John (1830 – 1903)
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.
GMN 7811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9983
1861 SCHUPPERT, Moritz (1817 – 1887)
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.
GMN 7814 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9986
1861 GROSS, Samuel David (1805 – 1884)
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…
GMN 7815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9987
1861 JACKSON, Charles Thomas (1805 – 1880)
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 …
GMN 7867 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10039
1862 WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier (1833 – 1884)
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.
GMN 7737 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9909
1862 MOORE, Samuel Preston (1813 – 1889)
Regulations for the Medical Department of the C. S. Army.
Electronic edition from unc.edu, Documenting the American South, at this link.
GMN 7817 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9989
1863 PORCHER, Francis Peyre (1825 – 1895)
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…
GMN 1865.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2429
1863 ALCOTT, Louisa May (1832 – 1888)
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 …
GMN 7419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9591
1863 MOORE, Samuel Preston (1813 – 1889)
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…
GMN 7736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9908
1863 WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier (1833 – 1884)
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.
GMN 7738 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9910
1863 BARTHOLOW, Roberts (1831 – 1904)
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.
GMN 7739 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9911
1863 WARREN, Edward (1828 – 1893)
An epitome of practical surgery for field and hospital.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7812 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9984
1863 FORMENTO, Felix (1837 – 1907)
Notes and observations on army surgery.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7813 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9985
1863 BOWDITCH, Henry Ingersoll (1808 – 1892)
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.
GMN 9161 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11340
1863 JOHN WEISS & SON
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…
GMN 10496 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12689
1863 GOLDSMITH, Middleton (1818 – 1887)
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…
GMN 12167 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14377
1863 OLMSTED, Frederick Law (1822 – 1903)
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…
GMN 13754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16038
1863 SMITH, Henry Hollingsworth (1815 – 1890)
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.
GMN 14228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16545
1864 MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829 – 1914); KEEN, William Williams (1837 – 1932); MOREHOUSE, George Read (1829 – 1905)
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…
GMN 2167 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1110
1864 –1865
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…
GMN 7740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9912
1864 EDMONDS, Sarah Emma (1841 – 1898)
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, …
GMN 8994 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11173
1864 DA COSTA, Jacob Mendes (1833 – 1900)
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 …
GMN 11578 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13777
1864 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865); ET AL
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…
GMN 11905 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14110
1865 WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier (1833 – 1884); OTIS, George Alexander (1830 – 1881); BARNES, Joseph K. (1817 – 1883)
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.
GMN 9529 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11715
1865 EVANS, Thomas Wilberger (1823 – 1897)
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.
GMN 11384 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13583
1866 STILLÉ, Charles Janeway (1819 – 1899)
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.
GMN 7799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9971
1866 LETTERMAN, Jonathan (1824 – 1872)
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…
GMN 9214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11396
1866 WOODHULL, Alfred Alexander (1837 – 1921)
Catalogue of the surgical section of the United States Army Medical Museum.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10375 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12567
1866 CUMMING, Kate (1830 – 1909)
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…
GMN 13706 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15990
1867 BROCKETT, Linus Pierpont (1820 – 1893); VAUGHAN, Mary C.
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…
GMN 7748 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9920
1867 WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier (1833 – 1884); CURTIS, Edward (1838 – 1912)
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.
GMN 10369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12561
1867 FLINT (ELDER), Austin (1812 – 1886)
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.
GMN 11596 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13795
1867 HOLSTEIN, Anna Morris (1824 – 1900)
Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15616
1868 WOOLSEY, Jane Stuart (1830 – )
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…
GMN 8998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11177
1870 –1888 WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier (1833 – 1884); OTIS, George Alexander (1830 – 1881); HUNTINGTON, David Low (1834 – 1899); BARNES, Joseph K. (1817 – 1883); SMART, Charles (1830 – 1881); LETTERMAN, Jonathan (1824 – 1872)
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 medica…
GMN 2171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1174
1870 FREEMAN, Julia Susan Wheelock (1833 – 1900)
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…
GMN 13032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15282
1875 BAXTER, Jedediah Hyde (1837 – 1890)
Statistics, medical and anthropological, of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau, derived from records of the examination for military service in the armies of the United States during the late War of the Rebellion, of over a million recruits.... 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7818 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9990
1876 STEVENSON, R. Randolph (1834 – 1891)
The southern side: Or, Andersonville Prison. Complied from official documents. Together with an examination of the Wirz Trial: A comparison of the mortality in Northern and Southern prisons; remarks on the exchange bureau, etc. An appendix, showing the number of prisoners that died at Andersonville, and the causes of death; classified lists of all that died in stockade and hospital, etc., etc.
Stevenson was chief surgeon at the Confederate States Military Prison Hospitals in Andersonville, Georgia. The appendix lists the causes of death of 12,912 men. "Andersonville Prison, established in Georgia early in 1…
GMN 10795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12991
1883 WELLS, John Wesley; STRAIT, Newton Allen ( – 1922)
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.…
GMN 7816 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9988
1888 LIVERMORE, Mary Ashton Rice (1820 – 1905)
My story of the war: The Civil War memories of the famous nurse, relief organizer and suffragette.
GMN 8996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11175
1895 HOLLAND, Mary A. Gardner
Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11180
c. 1911 –c. 1916 DUNCAN, Louis Casper (1869 – 1940)
The Medical Department of the United States Army in the Civil War.
"The chapters comprising the volume appeared originally as separate articles in the 'Military surgeon.' Upon their compilation a limited number of copies of reprints were obtained by this office and bound together for…
GMN 11552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13751
1952 ADAMS, George Worthington (1905 – 1981)
Doctors in blue. The medical history of the Union Army in the [United States] civil war.
GMN 2187.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1359
1956 MAXWELL, William Quentin
Lincoln's fifth wheel: the political history of the U. S. Sanitary Commission.
GMN 7418 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9590
1958 CUNNINGHAM, Horace Herndon (1913 – 1969)
Doctors in gray: the Confederate Medical Service.
GMN 2188.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1364
1962 SMITH, George Winston
Medicines for the Union Army: the United States Army Laboratories during the Civil War.
GMN 7417 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9589
