An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for field and hospital, (1863), by Edward Warren, M.D., CSA (Extremely Rare)
Author: Warren, Edward, M.D. 1828-1893.
SURGEON GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, FORMERLY PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.
An epitome of practical surgery for field and hospital.br
Published: Richmond, Va., West & Johnston, 1863.
Edition: 1st ed. Original stiff paper binding.
Subject: Surgery, Military, Confederate Army. 391 pages, no drawings, all text.
Field size manual: 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 x 1 1/4 in.
This is a very rare book as it was published by the Confederate States of America which represented the South during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. I bought it in 2016 from an antiquarian respected book dealer for a pretty penny who said it was the finest condition of this rare book he had seen in his 50 years of dealing and specializing Antique Books of the Southern USA.
Dr. Edward Warren was the son of Dr. William and Harriet Warren of Edenton, North Carolina. During the War Between the States, he served briefly as a surgeon with troops from North Carolina and Virginia, prepared a manual on military surgery, and was Surgeon General of North Carolina from 1863 until the end of the war. After the war, he returned to active practice and a teaching position in Baltimore. Maryland. Between 1867 and 1871 he helped establish two Baltimore Hospitals and the nucleus of the Johns Hopkins Medical School.
For two years he was chief surgeon in the Egyptian army and performed a successful operation on the minister of war and was then awarded the title of “Bey”.
Dr. Warren moved to Paris, France in the 1870’s and there he was awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Washington Medical College.—’ This Institution, recently opened in Baltimore, is designed to supply the wants of the South in a purely Southern Medical College. Its President, Dr. Ford, was a surgeon in the old U. S. army, and during the war was Medical Director of the Western Department of the Confederate army, and was recognized as a man of undoubted ability. Of its professors Dr. Edward Warren was Surgeon General in North Carolina, and had charge of the hospitals of the State. Dr. Logan vas a professor in the Atlanta Medical College, and was Medical Director of Georgia. Dr. Byrd was professor in Orglethorpe Medical College, and a surgeon C. S. A. Dr. Scott was professor in the Richmond Medical College, and Drs. Clagett and Moorman were both surgeons in the Confederate army. Such an institution merits the patronage and support of the people of the South.
During the Civil War he wrote a manual on military surgery: An Epitome of Practical Surgery for Field and Hospital: Richmond, VA, West & Johnston, 1863.