1865 CIVIL WAR Medicine 1st Gunshot Surgery Cholera Fever US War Dept Circulars

1865 CIVIL WAR Medicine 1^st Gunshot Surgery Cholera Fever US War Dept Circulars

In the 19^th-century, the U.S. War Department’s Surgeon General’s Office issued a series of publications titled “Circulars”. These reports addressed various medical concerns affecting the military, including epidemic diseases and surgical procedures.

The first ‘circular’ contained reports on the recent cholera epidemic as well as outbreaks of Yellow Fever in the United States Army. Other circulars include notes on surgical operations and hip amputations within the military offering insight into military medical practices following the Civil War.

This set of 5 tomes includes 6 separate collections of “Circulars” including:

• 1: Epidemic Cholera and Yellow Fever
• 2: Excisions of the Head of the Femur from gunshot injury
• 3: Surgical cases from 1865 to 1871
• 5: Cholera epidemic of 1866
• 7: Hip amputations from gunshot sounds
• 6: Materials available for preparations of surgery during the rebellion

Item number: #27802

Price: $995

US War Department

Circulars…

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867-1871. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 6 circulars in 5 tomes
  • Circular No. 1 (1868) – XXXIX, [1], 156
  • 2 (1869) – 141, [3]
    • 3 full-pages plates
    • 71 in-text figures
  • 3 (1871) – 296
    • 69 in-text figures
    • 4 engraved plates
  • 5 (1867) – XVIII, 65, [1]
    • Bound with No. 7
  • 7 (1867) – 87, [1]
    • 7 full-page engravings (5 in color)
    • 30 in-text figures
  • 6 (1865) – [2], 166
    • Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1865
    • 109 in-text figures
    • 9 full-page plates and charts
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
    • Uniformly rebound in fine leather and marbled boards
  • Size: ~in X in (cm x cm)

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