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Doctors In Gray: The Confederate Medical Service
About this book
"H. H. Cunningham's Doctors in Gray, first published more than thirty years ago, remains the definitive work on the medical history of the Confederate army. Drawing on a prodigious array of sources, Cunningham paints as complete a picture as possible of the daunting task facing those charged with caring for the war's wounded and sick.
Of the estimated 600, 000 Confederate troops, Cunningham claims the 200, 000 died either from battle wounds of from illness—the majority, surprisingly, from illness. Despite these grim statistics, Confederate medical personnel frequently performed heroically under the most primitive of circumstances and made imaginative use of limited resources. Cunningham provides detailed information on the administration of the Confederate Medical Department, the establishment and organization of Confederate hospitals, the experiences of medical officers in the field, the manufacture and procurement of supplies, the causes and treatment of diseases, and the beginning of modern surgical practices." - Print ed.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I - The Confederate Medical Problem
- CHAPTER II - Confederate Doctors: The Medical Background
- CHAPTER III - Organization and Administration of the Confederate Medical Department
- CHAPTER IV - Confederate General Hospitals: Establishment and Organization
- CHAPTER V: - Administration of General Hospitals
- CHAPTER VI - Prison Hospitals
- CHAPTER VII - Medical Officers in the Field
- CHAPTER VIII - Procurement and Manufacture of Hospital and Medical Supplies
- CHAPTER IX: - Causes of Disease
- CHAPTER X: - Prevalence and Treatment of Disease
- CHAPTER XI: - Surgery and Infections
- CHAPTER XII: - Confederate Medical Officers: An Appraisal
- CHAPTER XIII: - Conclusion
- APPENDIX I- The wartime appropriations to the Army Medical Department
- APPENDIX II - Statistical Reports of Hospitals in Department of Virginia
- APPENDIX III - Reports Concerning the Battle of Chickamauga
- GENERAL APPENDIX
- BIBLIOGRAPHY