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Author Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R., 1951-

Title The encyclopedia of Civil War medicine / Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein
Published Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 421 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Alcohol, Abuse of -- Alcohol, Medicinal uses of -- Alcott, Louisa May -- Alternative medicines -- Ambulance corps -- Ambulance trains -- Ambulances -- Amputation -- Andersonville Prison -- Anesthesia -- Antietam, Battle of (1862) -- Antiseptics and disinfectants -- Army Medical Museum -- Artificial limbs -- Association of Army and Navy Surgeons of the Confederate States -- Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy -- Autenrieth Medicine Wagon -- Bandages -- Barnes, Joseph K. -- Barton, Clara -- Bean, James Baxter -- Beers, Fannie A. -- Bellows, Henry Whitney -- Bickerdyke, Mary Ann Ball ("Mother") -- Blacks, as Hospital workers -- Blacks, Health of -- Blockade -- Brinton, John Hill -- Bull Run (Manassas), First Battle of (1861) -- Bull Run (Manassas), Second Battle of (1862) -- Calomel -- Camp itch -- Catarrh -- Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence -- Chaplains -- Chickamauga, Battle of (1863) -- Chimborazo Hospital -- Chisolm, John Julian -- Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal -- Convalescents -- Cooks -- Cumming, Kate -- Cupping and blistering
Davis, Jefferson -- Death, Attitudes toward -- Debilitas -- DeLeon, David Camden -- Dentistry -- Diarrhea and dysentery -- Diet, of Hospital patients -- Diet, of Troops -- Dix, Dorothea Lynde -- Education, Medical -- Elmira Prison -- Embalming -- Erysipelas -- Ewell, Richard Stoddert -- Examining Boards, Medical -- Eye ailments -- Fevers -- Finley, Clement Alexander -- Flewellen, Edward Archelaus -- Foard, Andrew Jackson -- Formento, Felix -- Fredericksburg, Battle of (1862) -- Gangrene, Hospital -- Gettysburg, Battle of (1863) -- Guild, Lafayette -- Gunshot wounds, Treatment of -- Hammond, William Alexander -- Hardtack -- Hawks, Esther Hill -- Heart disease -- Historiography, Medical -- Hoge, Jane Currie Blaikie -- Hood, John Bell -- Hopkins, Juliet Ann Opie -- Hospital buildings -- Hospital fund -- Hospital paperworks -- Hospital relocations -- Hospital ships -- Hospital support staff -- Hospitals, Antebellum -- Hospitals, attitudes toward -- Hospitals, Field -- Hospitals, General -- Hospitals, Officers' -- Hospitals, Pavilion -- Hospitals, "Pest" (Smallpox) -- Hospitals, Receiving and distributing -- Hospitals, Wayside
Infections, of Wounds -- Insanity -- Inspectors, Medical -- Invalid Corps -- Jackson, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") -- Johnston, Albert Sidney -- Johnston, Joseph Eggleston -- Jones, Joseph -- Laboratories, Medical -- Latrines -- Laudanum -- Laundresses -- Lawson, Thomas -- Leale, Charles Augustus -- Letterman, Jonathan -- Lice -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice -- Maggots -- Malaria -- Malingerers -- Malnutrition -- Materia medica -- Matrons -- McCaw, James Brown -- McGuire, Hunter Holmes -- Measles -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion -- Medical cadets -- Medical department, Organization of -- Medical directors, Field -- Medical directors, of Hospitals -- Medical importance of the Civil War -- Medical purveyors -- Medication, Administration of -- Miasms -- Minié Balls -- Mitchell, Silas Weir -- Moore, Samuel Preston -- Morphine -- Mortality, of Soldiers -- Mortality, of Surgeons -- Mosquitoes -- Mudd, Samuel Alexander -- Musicians, as Medica assistants
Negligence, by Medical staff -- Newsom (Trader), Ella King -- Nightingale, Florence -- Nuns -- Nurses -- Officer of the day -- Olmsted, Frederick Law -- Opiate use and addiction -- P.A.C.S. -- Pember, Phoebe Yates Levy -- Peninsula Campaign (1862) -- Pneumonia -- Porcher, Francis Peyre -- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Prisoners of war -- Quartermasters -- Quinine -- Quintard, Charles Todd -- Resection -- Reserve Surgical Corps -- Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests -- Rheumatism -- Richmond, Virginia -- Sanitary fairs -- Sanitation -- Scurvy -- Shiloh, Battle of (1862) -- Sicles, Daniel Edgar -- Smallpox -- Southern Practitioner -- Splints -- Stewards, Hospital -- Stout, Samuel Hollingworth -- Stretchers -- Strong, George Templeton -- Subsistence Department -- Substitutes, for Supplies -- Supply table -- Surgeon General -- Surgeons -- Surgeons, Acting assistant (Contract) -- Surgeons, Assistant -- Surgeons, Brigade -- Surgeons, Post -- Surgeon's call
Tartar Emetic -- Tents, Hospital -- Tetanus -- Tompkins, Sally Louisa -- Tripler, Charles Stuart -- Tuberculosis -- Turner's Lane Hospital -- Typhoid fever -- Typhomalarial fever -- United States Christian Commission -- USS Red Rover -- Vaccination, Smallpox -- Varioloid -- Venereal disease -- Ventilation -- Walker, Mary Edwards -- Ward Masters -- Washington, DC -- Western Sanitary Commission -- Whitman, Walt -- Wittenmyer, Annie Turner -- Woman's Central Association of Relief -- Women, as Doctors -- Women, as Hospital workers -- Women's hospital auxiliaries and relief societies -- Woodward, Joseph Janvier -- Woolsey Sisters -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author
Summary Clearly organized, authoritative, and readable, this first-of-its-kind encyclopedia offers general readers and scholars alike detailed coverage of the amazing saga of Civil War medicine on both sides of the conflict
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-374) and index
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Subject Medicine, Military -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Encyclopedias
Medicine, Military.
American Civil War
Military Medicine
HISTORY.
Medical care
Medicine, Military
Militärmedizin
Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
Medizinische Versorgung
Military medicine -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Sezessionskrieg <1861-1865>
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care -- Encyclopedias
United States
Subject United States
USA
United States -- History -- 1861-1865, Civil War -- Medical care -- Encyclopedias.
Genre/Form encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias
History
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007011423
ISBN 9780765624703
0765624702
9780765630780
0765630788
0765621304
9780765621306
1315699850
9781315699851
1317457102
9781317457107
1317457099
9781317457091
Other Titles Civil War medicine