American Civil War Medicine & Surgical Antiques

Surgical Set collection from 1860 to 1865 - Civilian and Military

Civil War:  Medicine, Surgeon Education & Medical Textbooks

 Dr. Michael Echols  &  Dr. Doug Arbittier

 

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Prices for Civil War Medical, Surgical, or Anatomy Textbooks

U.S. Army Hospital Department    -   U.S. Army Medical Department

How to find values for old medical books.  If you are trying to determine the value of a Civil War or earlier medical text books, surgical manuals, anatomy books, first check on www.abebooks.com , if you are unable to find exactly the book or version you are looking for there, then try www.alibris.com

Other sources are www.bookfinder.com and http://www.biblio.com/booksellers/233/Civil_War_Bookdealers.html .

Under no circumstances should you accept the offer of some guy with a web site who just wants to pay you nothing for your medical book and then turn around and sell it to a collector (like me) for ten times what he paid you.  Also keep an eye on the books section of www.eBay.com for what similar books are selling for in the antiquarian books section or in the Civil War sections.

Civil War general Civil War era medical book topics

Anatomy, Physiology, Materia Medica, Pharmacy, Therapeutics, Pathology, Physic, Practice of Medicine, Surgery, Medical Jurisprudence, Medical Police, Hygiene

Topics found in Civil War era medical books

Anatomy:

Physiological Anatomy, Anatomist, Pathological Anatomy, Human Anatomy, Anatomy of the Arteries, Anatomical Atlas, System of Human Anatomy

Physiology:

Human Physiology, Treatise on Blood, Manual of Physiology, Elements of Physiology, Cellular Pathology

Materia Medica

Material Medica and Therapeutics, Pharmacopaeia, Formulary, Pharmacy, Dispensatory

Pathology and Practice of Medicine

Epidemics, Physic, Practice of Medicine, Diseases, Urinary Deposits, Stomach, Tumors, Tumours, Cholera, Thoracic, Abdominal, Viscera, Diagnosis, Germs, Dictionary, Human Fluids, Heart, Respiratory Organs, Fever, Liver, Epidemic, Circulation, Pathology, Tropical Diseases, Medical Dictionary, Gall-Stones, Camp Diseases, cellular pathology

Surgery

Surgical Observations, Spine, Joints,  Club-foot, Operative, Lectures, Reconstruction, Venereal Diseases, Testis, Rectum, Syphilis, Eye, Skin, Bones, Modern Surgery, Aneurism, Science and Art, Surgery of War, Fractures, Dislocations, Bladder, Military, System, Medicine, Ophthalmoscope, Gun-shot, Wounds, Army, Recruits, Surgeons, Anatomy, Cutaneous, Head and Neck, Teeth, Bandaging, Operations, Treatise,  Operative, Gunshot,

Medical Jurisprudence

Medical, Jurisprudence, Poisons, Forensic, Medicine

Hygiene

Hygiene, Enlisting, Sanitary, Discharging, Soldiers, Surgeon’s manual, Officers, U. S. Army, Diet, Sick, Practical, Regulations, Barracks, Quarters, Institutes, Police, Sickness, Recruits, Inspection, Hospital, Steward, Manual

Civil War related medical books currently in this collection

 

Examples of Medical Book Collection Index          Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Dr. Michael Echols collects medical books printed in the United States of America from 1855 to 1865 as representative of education prior to and during the Civil War.    Special order text books were purchased by the Army Medical Department during or just before the Civil War and most, but  not  all were imprinted with special marks or embossing.  The  following  are examples:

U.S. Army Medical Department

U.S. Army Hospital Department

 

U.S. Army Medical Department

U.S. Army Hospital Department

See www.abebooks.com  for current values of Civil War medical books assuming you can find a 'real' one

Medical Antiques Index

American Civil War Medicine & Surgical Antiques Index

 

Topical Index for American Civil War Surgical Antiques 


 

Contact Dr. Arbittier with questions or if you have Civil War medical related items for sale

 

 

Civil War Medical Collections    Sitemap for entire website 

 

Direct links to all medical & Civil War collections on this site           

American Surgical Sets:

Pre-Civil War:  1 | 2  -   Post-Civil War:  3  -  Civil War 1861-1865:  4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8   INDEX

Medical Text-Books:

1 | 1a | 2 | 2a | 3 | 3a | 4 | 4a | 5 | 5a | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9a | 10 | 11 | 12    INDEX

Surgeon General's Office Library printed catalogues: 1840 | 1864 | 1865
Medical Lecture Cards: 1a | 1b 2 | 34 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21    INDEX

Medical Faculty and Authors:

INDEX

Navy Surgeon Exams:

1863 Navy Surgeon Applicant Exams with Biographies   INDEX ONE | INDEX TWO

Surgeon CDVs, Images

Surgeon's Medical Service Swords, and Pistols

Army: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8    INDEX    

M.S. Surgeon Swords and Pistols:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4  INDEX

Navy: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8   

Hosp Dep't Bottles, Tins, 

U.S. Army Pannier:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

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Last update: Tuesday, February 01, 2022