Handbook of Surgical Operations, Stephen Smith, U.S.A. Hospital Dept.
date: label: date made
content: c. 1850s-1860s
label: date made
content: 1860s
notes: label: Description
content: Book with a frayed green cover which reads Handbook of Surgical Operations, Stephen Smith, U.S.A. Hospital Dept. The book's binding is in poor shape.
label: Description
content: This book was probably used by Lt. Col. William Irvin Wolfley, Surgeon in Chief of the 62nd Ohio Infantry. Dr. Wolfley was attached to DeRussey's Division of the Army of the Potomac, and was in charge of the convalescent camps along the Potomac from Chain Bridge to Alexandria, Virginia.
label: Description
content: Stephen Smith was a New York surgeon. His handbook was provided to Union Army physicians like Wolfley beginning in 1862. The book provided advice from well-known experts on surgical techniques such as the use of anesthesia and limb-sparing resection (debridement) of gunshot wounds. As many Union Army physicians had limited training before the war, the book used both illustrations and short straight-forward descriptions.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: Virginia
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: associated subject; web subjec
content: Surgery
label: associated subject; web subjec
content: Surgical instruments
label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Civil War Surgical Sets
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.112986.01.49
label: accession number
content: 112986
label: catalog number
content: 112986.01.49
objectType: label: Object Name
content: handbook, surgical operations
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 5 1/4 in x 7 in; 2.54 cm x 13.335 cm x 17.78 cm