Sargent, F. W., On Bandaging and Other Operations of Minor Surgery. New Edition, with an Additional Chapter on Military Surgery by W. F. Atlee. CIVIL WAR EDITION. Blanchard & Lea, Philadelphia, 1862.
On the spine is a gold imprint “U.S.A. HOSP. DEPT.” Contains 187 illustrations.
Updated 8.14.2020 by Natan Schleider, M.D
Sargent, F. W., On Bandaging and Other Operations of Minor Surgery. New Edition, with an Additional Chapter on Military Surgery by W. F. Atlee. CIVIL WAR EDITION. Blanchard & Lea, Philadelphia, 1862. On the spine is a gold imprint “U.S.A. HOSP. DEPT.” Contains 187 illustrations.
A copy of this text book is listed in the 1864 and 1865 Surgeon General’s Office Library Catalogues or the list of medical textbooks which were published during the Civil War by the Army Medical Department.
Sargent, F. W., On Bandaging and Other Operations of Minor Surgery. New Edition, with an Additional Chapter on Military Surgery by W. F. Atlee. CIVIL WAR EDITION. Blanchard & Lea, Philadelphia, 1862., Original full leather, with original leather spine label. Gold Imprint on spine: U.S.A. HOSP. DEPT. Signed by previous owner, “George M. Beakes, Surgeon, 141st N.Y. Volunteers, July 1863”. Some early splitting of the leather boards along the leather spine and some minor water staining of the boards suggests that Dr. Beakes had this book in his tent (see scans). “The merits of this work as a handy and convenient manual for reference in the field and hospital, have induced the publishers to add to it a chapter (the Ninth) on Gunshot Wounds, and such other subjects peculiar to Military Surgery as seemed requisite to adapt it more thoroughly to the wants of Army Surgeons. Owing to the absence of the Author in Europe, this has been prepared by Dr. W. F. Atlee. Philadelphia, March, 1862″ (Preface, p. vii). Atlee’s additional chapter is pp. 350-373. This work was originally published in 1848. This is the Civil War edition, with the additional chapter by W. F. Atlee on military surgery added in 1862. Fitzwilliam Sargent was the father of the painter John Singer Sargent. xxiv, 25-383 pp; 187 figs.; 12 page catalogue of publisher’s ads.
Dr. Beakes received his M.D. degree in 1856 from the Albany Medical College, Albany, NY. During the Civil War, he served as Surgeon, 141st NY Infantry, U.S. Army. After the war he practiced medicine in Bloomingburgh, NY and died in that town on Jun 16th, 1900, at the age of 69.
[NOTE: This book is currently undergoing restoration work as the spine needed strenthening, hopefully I will remember to post new cleaner images of this great book]
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
1. F. William Sargent: physician, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, May, 17 1820, was graduated at Jefferson college in 1839, and at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1843. He was a surgeon to Wills hospital, Philadelphia, in 1844-’54. At the latter date he moved to Switzerland, where he has since resided. He published ” Bandaging and other Operations of Minor Surgery” (Philadelphia, 1848; with additions on military surgery, 1862), and edited Robert Druitt’s “Principles and Practice of Minor Surgery” (Philadelphia, 1853) and James Miller’s ” Principles of Surgery” (1853).
2. ATLEE, John Light, physician, born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 2 November 1799; died there, 1 October 1885. He was a son of Colonel W. P. Atlee, and grandson of Judge W. A. Atlee. He studied medicine with Dr. Samuel Humes in Philadelphia, and was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1820. He returned to his native City, began practice, and soon became successful, especially in surgical cases. Dr. Atlee’s operation for double ovariotomy, in 1843, was the first in the history of medicine, he was one of the founders of the Lancaster city and county medical society in 1843, and twice served as its president. He assisted in organizing the Pennsylvania medical society in 1848, and became its president in 1857, and was also one of the organizers of the American medical association in Philadelphia, and was elected vice-president in 1865, and president in 1882. At the union of Franklin and Marshall Colleges, in 1853, he became professor of anatomy and physiology, and continued there until 1869. He was a school director for forty years. Dr. Atlee was noted for his advocacy of the difficult operation of ovariotomy, which he was one of the first to practice. He ably defended its propriety when it was in universal disrepute, and, by his great skill in over 300 cases, he aided in making it one of the legitimate operations of surgery. When he first performed this operation in Philadelphia he was denounced by medical men on all sides as a dangerous man. Few surgeons dared to be present at his operations, and there was even talk of having him arrested. Dr. Atlee was also noted for his skill in the removal of uterine fibroid tumors. He was a brilliant speaker and debater, and a copious writer on medicine, chemistry, and botany, having published over eighty articles in various journals.