[PDF] An Army Doctor On The Western Frontier eBook

Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0826354556

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Assigned to the District of Utah during the Civil War, physician John Vance Lauderdale spent the next twenty-five years on army posts in the American West, serving in California, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Texas. Throughout his career he kept a detailed journal and sent long letters home to his sister in upstate New York. This selection of Lauderdale’s writings, edited and annotated by a premier historian of the American West, offers an insightful account of army life that will teach readers much about the settlement and growth of the West in a time of rapid change. Lauderdale’s observations are keen and critical. He writes about fellow officers, his army superiors, the civilians and American Indians he encountered, life on officers’ row, and the day-to-day functioning of the army medical service. Particularly valuable are his insights into military interactions with local communities of Mormons, American Indians, and Hispanos.

Author : Robert F. Karolevitz
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Medical
ISBN :

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Traces the development of the healing art with such related factors and facets as hospitals, apothecaries, medicines, equipment, nursing and midwifery.

Author : Mary C. Gillett
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Government publications
ISBN :

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Appendices include laws and legislation concerning the Army Medical Department. Maps include those of territories and frontiers and Continental Army hospital locations. Illustrations are chiefly portraits.

Author : Anton Paul Sohn
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :

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For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.

Author : Henry F. Hoyt
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1786254867

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This is the autobiography of the famous Henry F. Hoyt, a medical doctor and notable adventurer of the American West. His career started as a physician in the Goldrush town Deadwood, before moving west into the Texas Panhandle. He was by turns a Doctor, a Vigilante and a Cowboy, and he recounts stories of Charlie Siringo, John Chisum, Cole Younger, Billy The Kid, Jesse James, and many other figures of the Wild West. During the Spanish-American War he served as Chief Surgeon, was wounded and decorated in the Philippines, his life was one adventure after another. Illustrated with photographs.

Author : Donna Gerstle Smith
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1439676534

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From a headless burial to cocaine toothache drops, the true stories hidden in the Wild West's medical records are a match for its tallest tales. In the 19th century, when dying young was a fact of life, a routine bout of diarrhea could be fatal. No one had heard of viruses or bacteria, but they killed more soldiers on the frontier than hostile raiding parties. Physicians dispensed whiskey for TB, mercury for VD and arsenic for indigestion. Baseball injuries were considered to be in the line of duty and twice resulted in amputations at Fort Davis. Donna Gerstle Smith explains how an industrious laundress could earn more than a private, how a female army surgeon won the Medal of Honor and how a garrison illegally hung the local bartender.