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Civil War medicine : a surgeon's diary / edited by Robert D. Hicks

Published
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
xi, 393 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Hicks, Robert D., 1952-

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: PART I -- 1.To Virginia, Measles, and Typhoid (Diary, August 18, 1862, to February 19, 1863) -- 2.Chancellorsville and "a Spiteful Morose Scamp" (Diary, February 22, 1863, to June 28, 1863) -- 3.Searching for Flour at Gettysburg (Diary, June 29, 1863, to July 4, 1863) -- 4.Return to Virginia and Christmas with Secesh (Diary, July 5, 1863, to December 25, 1863) -- 5."To Bring Man in Communion with His God" (Diary, December 26, 1863, to January 29, 1864) -- 6.Dr. Fulton after 1864 -- 7.Commentary -- PART II -- 8."Examined at the University of Pennsylvania": Dr. Fulton, His Professional Milieu, and Military Medicine 1862-1864 / Shauna Devine -- 9."We Got Up and Began to Pack our Medicines": What Dr. Fulton Prescribed / Guy R. Hasegawa -- 10."We Soon Concluded to Operate": Dr. Fulton's Tools and Methods / James M. Edmonson -- 11."The Christian Commission Also Brought in a Wagon Today": Dr. Fulton, Voluntary Relief Associations, and Women in Hospitals / Barbra Mann Wall -- 12."We Made Up Soup as Fast as Possible": Nutrition and the Nineteenth-Century Male Body / Margaret Humphreys -- 13."Such Is the Character of Many Men": Dr. Robert Fulton's Politics and the Moral and Political Consciousness of Soldiers / Randall M. Miller.
Summary
"...29-year-old surgeon James Fulton transports readers into the harsh and deadly conditions of the Civil War as he struggles to save the lives of the patients under his care... he provides a detailed account of his two years in the army, including his experiences treating the wounded and diseased during some of the most critical campaigns of the Civil War and his relationships with soldiers, their commanders, civilians, other health-care workers, and the opposing Confederate army. The diary also includes his notes on recipes for medical ailments from sore throats to syphilis."--Back cover.
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ISBN
9780253040077 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0253040078 hardcover ; alkaline paper
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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