Volume 1

The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion (1861-65) / prepared, in accordance with the acts of Congress, under the direction of Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army.

  • Joseph K. Barnes
Date:
1875-1879
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Credit: The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion (1861-65) / prepared, in accordance with the acts of Congress, under the direction of Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    All of the reports above alluded to will, when compiled, be forwarded directly to tbe Acting Surgeon General. By order of the Acting Surgeon General: 0. H. CRANE, Surgeon U. S. Army. Medical Officer in charge of U. S. A. General Hospital. Contemporaneously with the establishment of a more accurate system of Medical and Surgical reports, a pathological collection was commenced, which, under the charge of Surgeon J. H. Brinton, U. S. Volunteers, and Assistant Surgeon J. J. Woodward, U. S. Army, became the basis of the Army Medical Museum, itself, as it now exists, an eloquent and instructive history of the Medi- cine and Surgery of the War, and without which no history could have been com- pletely illustrated. The announcement of this project was cordially responded to by Medical Officers throughout the service; and the list of contributors comprises the names of many most eminent for zeal and ability in the discharge of their duties under the Government, whose honorable records are identified with this work. The following Circular was published more to secure a certain class of speci- mens, than to stimulate the liberality with which most valuable pathological material was being forwarded: [CIRCULAR LETTER.] Surgeon General’s Office, Washington, D. C., June 24, 1864. Medical Officers in charge of Hospitals are directed to diligently collect and preserve for the Army Medical Museum, all pathological surgical specimens which may occur in the hospitals under their charge. The objects which it is desired to collect for the Museum may be thus enumerated: Fractures, compound and simple; fractures of the cranium. Excised portions of bone. Diseased bones and joints. Exfoliations ; especially those occurring in stumps. Specimens illustrative of the structure of stumps, (obliterated arteries, bulbous nerves, rounded bones, etc.) Integumental wounds of entrance and of exit, from both the round and conoidal ball. Wounds of vessels and nerves. Vessels obtained subsequent to ligation, and to secondary haemorrhage. Wounded viscera. Photographic representations of extraordinary injuries, portraying the results of wounds, operations, or peculiar amputations.