| Description |
pages cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- One. Nineteenth-century medicine -- Two. The early lives of Pliny Adams Jewett and Jonathan Knight -- Three. Dr. Timothy Beers Townsend -- Four. Doctor's apprentice -- Five. The war governor and his agents -- Six. Regimental surgeon -- Seven. The Elm City -- Eight. Building a hospital -- Nine. Medical staff of Knight U.S. Army General Hospital -- Ten. Hospital steward -- Eleven. Nurses -- Twelve. Provost marshal and the patient -- Thirteen. Medicine and politics -- Fourteen. Private Pliny Adams Jewett -- Fifteen. The hospital closes -- Sixteen. To South Carolina and back -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- I. Townsend's charges -- II. Surgical class of Timothy Beers Townshend reported in MSHWR -- III. Graduates of Yale Medical School dying in service -- IV. Surgical class of Dr. Charles Lindsley reported in MSHWR -- V. Surgical case of Dr. Timothy H. Bishop listed in MSHWR -- VI. Surgical cases of Dr. William Casey listed in MSHWR -- VII. Surgical cases of Dr. Henry Pierpont listed in MSHWR -- VIII. Surgical cases of Frederick Levi Dibble listed in MSHWR -- IX. Reports from hospital steward -- X. Knight U.S. Army General Hospital statistics, 1863-65 -- XI. Union mortalities by means and race -- XII. Mortality statistics in five military conflicts. |
| Summary |
"This history of Knight U.S. General Hospital, chosen because of available medical expertise, access to rail and water transportation and a pre-existing state hospital for the indigent, discusses the hospital's construction and operation during the war, the state of medicine at the time, and the administrative side of providing care to sick and wounded soldiers"-- |
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Knight U.S. General Hospital (New Haven, Conn.) -- History.
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Medicine, Military -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History -- 19th century.
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Surgery, Military -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History -- 19th century.
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Connecticut -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals.
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New Haven (Conn.) -- History, Military -- 19th century.
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New Haven (Conn.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
9780786476824 (softcover alkaline paper) |
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