num_pages: 204
description: Dr. Alfred Bollets Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs won wide acclaim as an expert study. Now in collaboration with Dr. Gordon Dammann Dr. Bollet has taken his expertise one step further and pictorially illuminated this fascinating chapter in medical history. Featuring 250 rare archival photographs Images of Civil War Medicine is a comprehensive visual encyclopedia of medical care during a seminal event in American history. The book showcases the uniforms equipment and members of a large group of individual Civil War doctors  Cartes de Visites  along with resonant images of existing pre-war structures used to heal the sick. Also here are prominent medical educators hospitals stewards and ambulancesas well as images of surgery dentistry nursing and embalming. Ideal for Civil War buffs historians and medical history enthusiasts Images of Civil War Medicine gives a complete overview of this era's medical realities.
language: English
title: Images Of Civil War Medicine: A Photographic History
publisher: Demos Health