ABSTRACT
The American Civil War is the most read about era in our history, and among its most compelling aspects is the story of Civil War medicine - the staggering challenge of treating wounds and disease on both sides of the conflict. Written for general readers and scholars alike, this first-of-its kind encyclopedia will help all Civil War enthusiasts to better understand this amazing medical saga. Clearly organized, authoritative, and readable, "The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine" covers both traditional historical subjects and medical details. It offers clear explanations of unfamiliar medical terms, diseases, wounds, and treatments. The encyclopedia depicts notable medical personalities, generals with notorious wounds, soldiers' aid societies, medical department structure, and hospital design and function. It highlights the battles with the greatest medical significance, women's medical roles, period sanitation issues, and much more. Presented in A-Z format with more than 200 entries, the encyclopedia treats both Union and Confederate material in a balanced way. Its many user-friendly features include a chronology, a glossary, cross-references, and a bibliography for further study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |31 pages
A
entry |3 pages
Alcohol, Abuse of
entry |2 pages
Alcohol, Medicinal Uses of
entry |2 pages
Alcott, Louisa May (1832–1888)
entry |5 pages
Alternative Medicines
entry |3 pages
Ambulance Corps
entry |2 pages
Ambulance Trains
entry |2 pages
Ambulances
entry |4 pages
Amputation
entry |4 pages
Andersonville Prison
entry |3 pages
Anesthesia
entry |4 pages
Antietam, Battle of (1862)
entry |2 pages
Antiseptics and Disinfectants
entry |3 pages
Army Medical Museum
entry |2 pages
Artificial Limbs
entry |2 pages
Association of Army and Navy Surgeons of the Confederate States
entry |1 pages
Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy
entry |2 pages
Autenrieth Medicine Wagon
letter |24 pages
B
entry |2 pages
Bandages
entry |2 pages
Barnes, Joseph K. (1817–1883)
entry |4 pages
Barton, Clara (1821–1912)
entry |2 pages
Bean, James Baxter (1834–1870)
entry |2 pages
Beers, Fannie A. (1840?–FL. 1888)
entry |3 pages
Bellows, Henry Whitney (1814–1882)
entry |3 pages
Bickerdyke, Mary Ann Ball (“Mother”) (1817–1901)
entry |2 pages
Blacks, as Hospital Workers
entry |3 pages
Blacks, Health of
entry |2 pages
Blockade
entry |1 pages
“Blue Mass”
entry |3 pages
Brinton, John Hill (1832–1907)
entry |1 pages
Bronchitis
entry |3 pages
Bull Run (Manassas), First Battle of (1861)
entry |4 pages
Bull Run (Manassas), Second Battle of (1862)
letter |19 pages
C
entry |2 pages
Calomel
entry |1 pages
Camp Fever
entry |2 pages
Camp Itch
entry |2 pages
Catarrh
entry |3 pages
Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence (1828–1914)
entry |2 pages
Chaplains
entry |4 pages
Chickamauga, Battle of (1863)
entry |3 pages
Chimborazo Hospital
entry |2 pages
Chisolm, John Julian (1830–1903)
entry |1 pages
Chloroform
entry |1 pages
Christian Commission
entry |1 pages
Commissary Department
entry |2 pages
Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal
entry |1 pages
Consumption
entry |1 pages
Contract Surgeons
entry |3 pages
Convalescents
entry |2 pages
Cooks
entry |1 pages
Crimean War
entry |2 pages
Cumming, Kate (CA. 1827–1909)
entry |2 pages
Cupping and Blistering
letter |18 pages
D
entry |4 pages
Davis, Jefferson (1808–1889)
entry |3 pages
Death, Attitudes Toward
entry |1 pages
Death Rates
entry |2 pages
Debilitas
entry |2 pages
Deleon, David Camden (CA. 1818–1872)
entry |2 pages
Dentistry
entry |3 pages
Diarrhea and Dysentery
entry |3 pages
Diet, of Hospital Patients
entry |4 pages
Diet, of Troops
entry |1 pages
Disinfectants
entry |3 pages
Dix, Dorothea Lynde (1802–1887)
entry |1 pages
Dysentery
letter |12 pages
E
entry |3 pages
Education, Medical
entry |3 pages
Elmira Prison
entry |2 pages
Embalming
entry |1 pages
Erysipelas
entry |1 pages
Ether
entry |4 pages
Ewell, Richard Stoddert (1817–1872)
entry |2 pages
Examining Boards, Medical
entry |1 pages
Excision
entry |2 pages
Eye Ailments
letter |8 pages
F
entry |2 pages
Fevers
entry |2 pages
Finley, Clement Alexander (1797–1879)
entry |2 pages
Flewellen, Edward Archelaus (1819–1910)
entry |2 pages
Foard, Andrew Jackson (CA. 1829–1868)
entry |3 pages
Formento, Felix (1837–1907)
entry |2 pages
Fredericksburg, Battle of (1862)
letter |8 pages
G
entry |2 pages
Gangrene, Hospital
entry |3 pages
Gettysburg, Battle of (1863)
entry |1 pages
Guild, Lafayette (1825–1870)
entry |1 pages
Gunshot Wounds
entry |2 pages
Gunshot Wounds, Treatment of
letter |37 pages
H
entry |3 pages
Hammond, William Alexander (1828–1900)
entry |2 pages
Hardtack
entry |2 pages
Hawks, Esther Hill (1833–1906)
entry |2 pages
Heart Disease
entry |1 pages
Hermetic Sealing of Wounds
entry |5 pages
Historiography, Medical
entry |3 pages
Hoge, Jane Currie Blaikie (1811–1890)
entry |3 pages
Hood, John Bell (1831–1879)
entry |3 pages
Hopkins, Juliet Ann Opie (1818–1890)
entry |2 pages
Hospital Buildings
entry |2 pages
Hospital Fund
entry |3 pages
Hospital Paperwork
entry |2 pages
Hospital Relocations
entry |4 pages
Hospital Ships
entry |2 pages
Hospital Support Staff
entry |1 pages
Hospital Trains
entry |2 pages
Hospitals, Antebellum
entry |3 pages
Hospitals, Attitudes Toward
entry |1 pages
Hospitals, Convalescent
entry |1 pages
Hospitals, Depot
entry |1 pages
Hospitals, Division
entry |3 pages
Hospitals, Field
entry |2 pages
Hospitals, General
entry |1 pages
Hospitals, Mobilization of
entry |2 pages
Hospitals, Officers'
entry |2 pages
Hospitals, Pavilion
entry |2 pages
Hospitals, “Pest” (Smallpox)
entry |1 pages
Hospitals, Pre-Civil War
entry |2 pages
Hospitals, Receiving and Distributing
entry |1 pages
Hospitals, Regimental
entry |1 pages
Hospitals, Wayside
letter |6 pages
I
entry |2 pages
Infections, of Wounds
entry |2 pages
Insanity
entry |3 pages
Inspectors, Medical
entry |1 pages
Intermittent Fevers
entry |2 pages
Invalid Corps
letter |9 pages
J
entry |3 pages
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan (“Stonewall”) (1824–1863)
entry |3 pages
Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803–1862)
entry |4 pages
Johnston, Joseph Eggleston (1807–1891)
entry |2 pages
Jones, Joseph (1833–1896)
letter |17 pages
L
entry |3 pages
Laboratories, Medical
entry |3 pages
Latrines
entry |1 pages
Laudanum
entry |2 pages
Laundresses
entry |2 pages
Lawson, Thomas (1789–1861)
entry |3 pages
Leale, Charles Augustus (1842–1932)
entry |3 pages
Letterman, Jonathan (1824–1872)
entry |1 pages
Lice
entry |5 pages
Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)
entry |2 pages
Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1820–1905)
letter |35 pages
M
entry |1 pages
Maggots
entry |2 pages
Malaria
entry |1 pages
Malingerers
entry |2 pages
Malnutrition
entry |2 pages
Materia Medica
entry |2 pages
Matrons
entry |2 pages
Mccaw, James Brown (1823–1906)
entry |3 pages
Mcguire, Hunter Holmes (1835–1900)
entry |2 pages
Measles
entry |2 pages
The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion
entry |2 pages
Medical Cadets
entry |3 pages
Medical Department, Organization of
entry |3 pages
Medical Directors, Field
entry |2 pages
Medical Directors, of Hospitals
entry |3 pages
Medical Importance of the Civil War
entry |1 pages
Medical Inspectors
entry |1 pages
Medical Officers
entry |2 pages
Medical Purveyors
entry |1 pages
Medical Sects
entry |2 pages
Medication, Administration of
entry |2 pages
Miasms
entry |2 pages
MiniÉ Balls
entry |3 pages
Mitchell, Silas Weir (1829–1914)
entry |3 pages
Moore, Samuel Preston (1813–1889)
entry |1 pages
Morphine
entry |3 pages
Mortality, of Soldiers
entry |2 pages
Mortality, of Surgeons
entry |3 pages
Mosquitoes
entry |3 pages
Mudd, Samuel Alexander (1833–1883)
entry |2 pages
Musicians, as Medical Assistants
letter |10 pages
N
entry |3 pages
Negligence, by Medical Staff
entry |2 pages
Newsom (Trader), Ella King (Ca. 1833–1919)
entry |3 pages
Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910)
entry |1 pages
Nostalgia
entry |3 pages
Nuns
entry |3 pages
Nurses
entry |1 pages
Nutrition
letter |5 pages
O
entry |1 pages
Officer of the Day
entry |3 pages
Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822–1903)
entry |2 pages
Opiate Use and Addiction
letter |12 pages
P
entry |1 pages
P.a.c.s.
entry |1 pages
Pain Management
entry |2 pages
Pember, Phoebe Yates Levy (1823–1913)
entry |5 pages
Peninsula Campaign (1862)
entry |1 pages
Phthisis
entry |2 pages
Pneumonia
entry |2 pages
Porcher, Francis Peyre (1825–1895)
entry |1 pages
Post Surgeon
entry |1 pages
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
entry |3 pages
Prisoners of War
entry |1 pages
Prostheses
letter |7 pages
Q
entry |4 pages
Quartermasters
entry |2 pages
Quinine
entry |3 pages
Quintard, Charles Todd (1824–1898)
letter |8 pages
R
entry |1 pages
Record Keeping
entry |1 pages
Red Rover
entry |1 pages
Remittent Fever
entry |2 pages
Resection
entry |2 pages
Reserve Surgical Corps
entry |2 pages
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests
entry |2 pages
Rheumatism
entry |3 pages
Richmond, Virginia
letter |31 pages
S
entry |1 pages
Sanitary Commission
entry |2 pages
Sanitary Fairs
entry |2 pages
Sanitation
entry |3 pages
Scurvy
entry |1 pages
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
entry |3 pages
Shiloh, Battle of (1862)
entry |1 pages
Sick Call
entry |3 pages
Sickles, Daniel Edgar (1819–1914)
entry |1 pages
Sinks
entry |1 pages
Sisters of Charity
entry |1 pages
Slaves, Health of
entry |2 pages
Smallpox
entry |1 pages
Smallpox Vaccinations
entry |1 pages
Southern Practitioner
entry |2 pages
Splints
entry |3 pages
Stewards, Hospital
entry |3 pages
Stout, Samuel Hollingsworth (1822–1903)
entry |2 pages
Stretchers
entry |2 pages
Strong, George Templeton (1820–1875)
entry |2 pages
Subsistence Department
entry |2 pages
Substitutes, for Supplies
entry |2 pages
Supply Table
entry |2 pages
Surgeon General
entry |2 pages
Surgeon in Charge
entry |1 pages
Surgeon of He Day
entry |2 pages
Surgeons
entry |2 pages
Surgeons, Acting Assistant (Contract)
entry |1 pages
Surgeons, Assistant
entry |1 pages
Surgeons, Brigade
entry |1 pages
Surgeons, Mortality of
entry |2 pages
Surgeons, Post
entry |2 pages
Surgeon's Call
letter |13 pages
T
entry |1 pages
Tartar Emetic
entry |2 pages
Tents, Hospital
entry |3 pages
Tetanus
entry |2 pages
Tompkins, Sally Louisa (1833–1916)
entry |3 pages
Tripler, Charles Stuart (1806–1866)
entry |2 pages
Tuberculosis
entry |3 pages
Turner's Lane Hospital
entry |3 pages
Typhoid Fever
entry |1 pages
Typhoid Pneumonia
entry |2 pages
Typhomalarial Fever
letter |7 pages
U
entry |3 pages
United States Christian Commission
entry |4 pages
United States Sanitary Commission
entry |2 pages
Uss Red Rover
letter |6 pages
V
entry |2 pages
Vaccination, Smallpox
entry |2 pages
Varioloid
entry |3 pages
Venereal Disease
entry |2 pages
Ventilation
entry |1 pages
Veteran Reserve Corps
entry |1 pages
V.s.
entry |1 pages
Vulnus Sclopeticum
letter |37 pages
W
entry |3 pages
Walker, Mary Edwards (1832–1919)
entry |2 pages
Ward Masters
entry |5 pages
Washington, DC
entry |1 pages
Wayside Hospitals
entry |3 pages
Western Sanitary Commission
entry |1 pages
Whiskey
entry |2 pages
Whitman, Walt (1819–1892)
entry |3 pages
Wittenmyer, Annie Turner (1827–1900)
entry |3 pages
Woman's Central Association of Relief
entry |3 pages
Women, as Doctors
entry |3 pages
Women, as Hospital Workers
entry |2 pages
Women's Hospital Auxiliaries and Relief Societies
entry |3 pages
Woodward, Joseph Janvier (1833–1884)
entry |2 pages
Woolsey Sisters