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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC05987.47 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Confederate Imprints and Broadsides |
| Title | A manual of military surgery, for the use of surgeons in the Confederate States Army: with explanatory plates of all useful operations |
| Date | 1864 |
| Author | Chisolm, J. Julian (1830-1903) |
| Document Type | Book |
| Content Description | Written by Chisolm as Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of South Carolina and as a surgeon in the Confederate Army. He was considered the foremost surgeon in the Confederate states, and this book was the mostly widely used surgical manual used by the Confederate Army. Published by Evans and Cogswell. Third edition copy "carefully revised and improved." Only three editions were published. Dedicated to Confederate Surgeon General Samuel Preston Moore. Includes prefaces for the first and third editions. Inscribed in pencil on first page by "R. Nalle, Amelia, Va." Index at front of book lists the hundreds of problems the book provides information on, including gunshot wounds, sabre wounds, and amputations. Text accompanied by fairly graphic and gruesome lithographic plates of amputations, excisions, etc. Original bead cloth cover. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Health and Medical Injury or Wound Hospital Education |
| Place written | Columbia, South Carolina |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine; Education; Arts & Literature |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |