Medical & Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion
The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65 is now available on CD-ROM. The MSHWR consists of six volumes published between 1870 and 1888 and consists of a medical history volume and a surgical history volume. The works detail tens of thousands of surgical cases and diseases occurring during the American Civil War (1861-65).The MSHWR included numerous statistical summaries relating to diseases, wounds, and deaths in both the Union and Confederate armies, almost all of the material formed from the reports of U.S. medical directors, surgeons, doctors, and hospital staff. The accounts are a basic source for medical data on the War and also comprise an important source of information relating to individual soldiers. The names of the surgeons who submitted these case studies are almost always included, so the books can be helpful in tracking where an individual surgeon was at various times. The individual patient's wounds are described in detail along with the soldier's name, unit of service, and battle where the injury occurred.
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| Hundreds of etchings, wood engravings, charts, and tables, as well as many photographs and color plates (lithographs, chromolithographs, albumen photographs, heliotypes, and woodburytypes) accompany the approximately 3,000 pages of densely printed text. |
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Our edition is scanned in high resolution with each volume on a single CD-ROM.
Part I, Volume I: Medical History (1870)