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
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
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
1868 HAESER, Heinrich (1811 – 1884); MIDDELDORPF, Albrecht Theodor (1824 – 1868); PFOLSPEUNDT, Heinrich von [Pfolsprundt] (1440 – )
Pfolspeundt: Buch der Bündth-Ertznei. Hrsg. von H. Haeser und A. Middeldorpf.
Although not printed until 1868, this treatise was written about 1460, and is the first work of the early German surgeons. Pfolspeundt was a Bavarian army surgeon; his book includes the first allusion to the extractio…
GMN 5558 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7429
1869 ESMARCH, Johann Friedrich August von (1823 – 1908)
Der erste Verband auf dem Schlachtfelde.
Esmarch introduced the first-aid bandage on the battlefield.
GMN 2168 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1149
1870 MAAS, Hermann (1842 – 1886)
Kriegschirurgische Beiträge aus dem Jahre 1866.
A surgical history of the Seven Weeks War between Germany and Austria. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 2169 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1158
1870 LISTER, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister (1827 – 1912)
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…
GMN 2170 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1163
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 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)
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, …
GMN 10448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12641
1870 WILSON, Joseph; GORGAS, Albert C. ( – 1895)
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.
GMN 13077 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15329
1871 VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902)
Ueber Lazarette und Barracken.
On the best way of setting up military hospitals to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. For English translation see No. 1617 (note).
GMN 2172 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1204
1872 KLEBS, Theodor Albrecht Edwin (1834 – 1913)
Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie der Schusswunden.
Klebs filtered the discharges from gunshot wounds, found the filtrate to be non-infectious, and from that reasoned that traumatic septicemia is of bacterial origin. He was the first to filter bacteria and to experimen…
GMN 2173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1207
1873 BROWN, Harvey Ellicott (1840 – 1889)
The medical department of the United States army from 1775 to 1873. Compiled under the direction of the Surgeon General by Harvey E. Brown.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10796 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12992
1874 LANGENBECK, Bernard Rudolf Conrad von (1810 – 1887)
Chirurgische Beobachtungen aus dem Kriege.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 2174 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1209
1874 BERGER, Charles; REY, Henri
Répertoire bibliographique des médecins et des pharmaciens de la marine française 1698-1873.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13325
1875 LAVERAN, Charles Louis Alphonse (1845 – 1922)
Traité des maladies et épidémies des armées.
GMN 2175 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1211
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
1879 WILSON, Joseph
Naval hygiene. Human health and the means of preventing disease. With illustrative incidents principally derived from naval experience.
Includes chromolithographed plates. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1879) from Google Books at this link. WorldCat cites only this second edition with this title and Wilson's work of 1870 (No. 13077). Therefo…
GMN 13078 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15330
1881 REYHER, Karl Karlovich (Carl Dietrich Christoph von) (1856 – 1890)
Ueber primäres Debridement der Schusswunden.
Reyher, a Russian surgeon, reintroduced débridement and made a controlled study of its value in contaminated gunshot wounds during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877. See No. 2177.
GMN 2176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1214
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
1887 FRÖLICH, Hermann (1839 – 1900)
Militärmedicin: kurze Darstellung des gesamten Militär-Sanitätswesens. (Band 13 von Wreden’s Sammlung kurzer medizinischer Lehrbücher).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11494 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13693
1890 FOSTER, Wallace
The deaf soldier: A brief synopsis of one hundred and two cases of deafness. Prepared for the consideration of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.
One of the earliest accounts of the recognition of loss of hearing due to firearms and explosions during war. Foster, secretary and treasurer of the Silent Army of Deaf Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, presented 100 cas…
GMN 7229 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9397
1891 SMITH, Sir Frederick (1857 – 1929)
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…
GMN 10152 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12341
1893 WALES, Philip Skinner (1837 – 1906)
Catalogue of the exhibits in the Museum of Hygiene. Medical Department of the United States Navy.
GMN 10717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12911
1894 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913); HURD, Henry Mills (1843 – 1927)
Hospitals dispensaries and nursing. Papers and discussions in the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Section III, Chicago, June 12th to 17th, 1893. Edited by John S. Billings and Henry M. Hurd.
Includes almost 90 articles on all aspects of hospitals and nursing, by luminaries such Henry Burdett, Lavinia Dock, Cardinal Gibbons, Isabel Hampton, Henry Lyman, and Lewis Pilcher, among dozens of others. Florence N…
GMN 11267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13464
1898 BARTON, Clarissa (1821 – 1912)
The Red Cross in peace and war.
Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…
GMN 7058 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9225
1900 BORDEN, William Cline (1858 – 1934)
The use of the Röntgen ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the war with Spain (1898).
The Spanish-American War was the first war in which X rays were used for diagnostic purposes. This is the first report on the application of X rays in military medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at …
GMN 2687.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4247
1900 YASUZUMI, Saneyoshi (1848 – 1932)
The surgical history of the naval war between Japan & China during 1894-95. Translated from the original Japanese report under the supervision of Baron Y. Saneyoshi by S. Suzuki.
Surgical history of the naval aspects of the First Sino-Japanese War. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9421 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11604
1901 KÖHLER, Albert (1850 – 1936)
Grundriss einer Geschichte der Kriegschirurgie.
GMN 2182 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1284
1901 MUNSON, Edward Lyman (1869 – 1947)
The theory and practice of military hygiene.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11388
1901 GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, Étienne (1772 – 1844); HAMY, Ernest Théodore Jules (1842 – 1908)
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Lettres écrites d'Égypte à Cuvier, Jussieu, Lacépède, Monge, Desgenettes, Redouté le Jeune, Norry, etc., aux professeurs du muséum et à sa famille. Receuillies et publiées avec un préface et des notes par le Dr. E.-T. Hamy.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 12210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14420
1902 HOWARD, Frank
Handbook of the medical organisations (chiefly for war) of foreign armies.
Includes short accounts of the field medical units and other details of the army medical service of 20 different states. Digital facsimile from Wellcome Library at this link.
GMN 9955 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12144
1902 LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766 – 1842); TRIAIRE, Paul (1842 – 1912)
Dominique Larrey et les compagnes de la révolution et de l'empire 1768-1842. Étude historique aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles d'après documents inédits. Journal et agendas de compagnes. Notes manuscrites. Correspondance officielle et privée.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link
GMN 12943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15190
1902 LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766 – 1842); TRIAIRE, Paul (1842 – 1912)
Napoléon et Larrey: Récits inédits de la revolution et de l’empire.
Some copies of this book include 8 of the 16 plates hand-colored; an unusual manual process for a book produced at this date.
GMN 12944 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15191
1903 BRUNNER, Conrad (1859 – 1927)
Die Verwundeten in den Kriegen der alten Eidgenossenschaft.
History of the care of the wounded during the Wars of the Swiss Confederation. Brunner shows that the Swiss were the first nation in Europe to organize state care of the wounded. Part 2 of the above work was published…
GMN 2183 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1291
1906 GREELY, Adolphus Washington (1844 – 1935)
Earthquake in California April 18, 1906. Special report of Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, U.S.A. on the relief operations conducted by the military authorities of the United States at San Francisco and other points, with accompanying documents.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9220 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11402
1907 MATIGNON, Jean-Jacques (1866 – 1928)
Enseignements médicaux de la Guerre Russo-Japonaise. Avec cartes, plans, croquis, schémas et photographies de l'auteur.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15061
1909 INOUYE, Tatsuji (1880 – 1976)
Die Sehstörungen bei Schussverletzungen der kortikalen Sehsphäre, nach Beobachtungen an Verwundeten der letzten japanischen Kriege.
During and after Japan’s war with Russia (1904-1905 ) Inouye tested the visual fields in wounded soldiers for insurance purposes, and set out his observations in this work. English translation: Glickstein, M. & Fahle,…
GMN 7397 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9569
1909 ASHBURN, Percy Moreau (1872 – 1940)
The elements of military hygiene especially arranged for officers and men of the line.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Revised edition, 1915, of which a digital facsimile is available from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9208 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11389
1909 HAVARD, Valery (1846 – 1927)
Manual of military hygiene.
Digital facsimile of the third, revised edition (1917) from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9209 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11390
1909 MACPHERSON, William Grant (1958 – 1927)
The Russo-Japanese war: Medical and sanitary reports from officers attached to the Japanese and Russian forces in the field, General staff, War office, April 1908.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11627
1912 –1914 SMITH, Sir Frederick (1857 – 1929)
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.
GMN 10151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12340
1915 GRAY, Henry McIlree Williamson (1870 – 1938)
Treatment of gunshot wounds by excision and primary suture.
Gray revived débridement of wounds, with primary suture. This procedure has been traditionally credited to Larrey and Desault. Larrey (No. 2160) employed excision and primary suture only for treatment of wounds of the…
GMN 2177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1216
1915 GRAHAM, John Henry Porteus (1869 – 1957)
A note on a relapsing febrile illness of unknown origin.
First reported case of “trench fever”.
GMN 5385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7113
1915 HUNT, George Herbert (1884 – 1926); RANKIN, Allan Coats (1877 – 1959)
Intermittent fever of obscure origin, occurring among British soldiers in France. The so-called “trench-fever”.
In this paper trench fever is so named for the first time.
GMN 5386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7118
1916 PRINZING, Friedrich (1859 – 1938); WESTERGAARD, Harald Ludvig (1853 – 1936)
Epidemics resulting from wars. Edited by Harald Westergaard.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 1682 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2374
