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- #CIVIL WAR HOSPITAL TEC HNOLAGFY MANUAL#
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There are many Civil War medicine pictures which show grizzly scenes. Medical care during the Civil War was rather primitive. The March number had been printed but was destroyed during the burning of Richmond (April 2, 1865).Civil War medicine was nothing like you would expect to see in today’s world. The January and February numbers for 1865 were the only ones issued that year. The only medical journal published under the Confederacy, the Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal is virtually impossible to find complete in its original printing, and even separate issues are extremely rare.
Volume 12: Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal. Woodward addresses such problems as malarial influence, crowd poisoning, camp fevers, jaundice, camp measles, acute dysentery, and pneumonia. Volume 11: Outlines of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United States Armies (Philadelphia, 1863).
#CIVIL WAR HOSPITAL TEC HNOLAGFY MANUAL#
Army Medical Department, Grace’s Manual contains all general orders from the war department, and circulars from the surgeon-general’s office from Januto July 1, 1864. The only complete source for the rules and regulations of the U. Intended “to provide Medical Officers, and civilians who contemplate entering the service, with a synopsis of duties required, directions for performing them, and, as far as practicable, with the forms at present in use” (from the preface). Volume 9: A Manual for the Medical Officers of the United States Army (Philadelphia, 1864). IN: Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States (Richmond, 1862). This American edition for Civil War surgeons was the best version ever published of this widely translated manual.
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The most elaborately illustrated of surgical manuals published during the Civil War, with 88 superb plates depicting operations and surgical instruments. Volume 7: Illustrated Manual of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy (New York, 1861). This examination manual contains comprehensive advice on the detection of malingerers, much of which is still useful today. Volume 6: A Manual of Instructions for Enlisting and Discharging Soldiers (Philadelphia, 1863). Organized into three sections, “On the Examination of Recruits,” “Of the Agents Inherent in the Organism which Affect the Hygienic Condition of Man,” and “Of Agents External to the Organism which Act upon the Health of Man,” Hammond’s treatise staunchly promotes strict hygienic practices. Using this book as reference, Confederate medical officers were able, in spite of the blockade of Southern ports, to supply their medicinal needs through the preparation of drugs from plants indigenous to the Southern states. PorcherĪ type of survival manual, Resources has been credited with maintaining the Southern war effort for many months longer than if it had not been written.
Volume 4: Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural (Richmond, 1863). Hamilton’s treatise is the first comprehensive English-language textbook on the treatment of fractures and dislocations. Volume 3: A Practical Treatise on Fractures and Dislocations (Philadelphia, 1860). Woodwardĭetails the five major parts of hospital organization: hospital attendants discipline, police, and general supervision of military hospitals food and its preparation the dispensary and hints on minor surgery and dressings for hospital stewards. Volume 2: The Hospital Steward’s Manual (Philadelphia, 1862). By consulting Ordronaux’s Manual, also bound in this volume, a military surgeon was able to complete an examination of a new recruit in a more orderly fashion. Ordronaux’s first work is also the first American book on military hygiene. BOUND WITH: Manual of Instructions for Military Surgeons (New York, 1863).Ģ38 pp. Volume 1: Hints on the Preservation of Health in Armies (New York, 1861).
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Each volume in the series is limited to 750 copies. Rutkow, M.D., Dr.P.H., has written a new biographical essay about the author. This series reprints the first editions of the medical manuals that Union and Confederate soldiers studied and took with them to the battlefields.
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