This encyclopedia contains entries on all aspects of Civil War medicine, such as medical terms, diseases, wounds, treatments, notable figures, battles, soldiers' aid societies, women's roles, hospital design and function, and sanitation issues, presented alphabetically. The author uses lay language and covers both Northern and Southern concerns.

Acknowledgments --Introduction -- Alcohol, Abuse of -- Alcohol, Medicinal uses of -- Alcott, Louisa May -- Alternative medicines -- Ambulance corps -- Ambulance trains -- Ambulances -- Amputation -- Andersonville Prison -- Anesthesia -- Antietam, Battle of (1862) -- Antiseptics and disinfectants -- Army Medical Museum -- Artificial limbs -- Association of Army and Navy Surgeons of the Confederate States -- Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy -- Autenrieth Medicine Wagon -- Bandages -- Barnes, Joseph K. -- Barton, Clara -- Bean, James Baxter -- Beers, Fannie A. -- Bellows, Henry Whitney -- Bickerdyke, Mary Ann Ball ("Mother") -- Blacks, as Hospital workers -- Blacks, Health of -- Blockade -- Brinton, John Hill -- Bull Run (Manassas), First Battle of (1861) -- Bull Run (Manassas), Second Battle of (1862) -- Calomel -- Camp itch -- Catarrh -- Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence -- Chaplains -- Chickamauga, Battle of (1863) -- Chimborazo Hospital -- Chisolm, John Julian -- Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal -- Convalescents -- Cooks -- Cumming, Kate -- Cupping and blistering. Davis, Jefferson -- Death, Attitudes toward -- Debilitas -- DeLeon, David Camden -- Dentistry -- Diarrhea and dysentery -- Diet, of Hospital patients -- Diet, of Troops -- Dix, Dorothea Lynde -- Education, Medical -- Elmira Prison -- Embalming -- Erysipelas -- Ewell, Richard Stoddert -- Examining Boards, Medical -- Eye ailments -- Fevers -- Finley, Clement Alexander -- Flewellen, Edward Archelaus -- Foard, Andrew Jackson -- Formento, Felix -- Fredericksburg, Battle of (1862) -- Gangrene, Hospital -- Gettysburg, Battle of (1863) -- Guild, Lafayette -- Gunshot wounds, Treatment of -- Hammond, William Alexander -- Hardtack -- Hawks, Esther Hill -- Heart disease -- Historiography, Medical -- Hoge, Jane Currie Blaikie -- Hood, John Bell -- Hopkins, Juliet Ann Opie -- Hospital buildings -- Hospital fund -- Hospital paperworks -- Hospital relocations -- Hospital ships -- Hospital support staff -- Hospitals, Antebellum -- Hospitals, attitudes toward -- Hospitals, Field -- Hospitals, General -- Hospitals, Officers' -- Hospitals, Pavilion -- Hospitals, "Pest" (Smallpox) -- Hospitals, Receiving and distributing -- Hospitals, Wayside. Infections, of Wounds -- Insanity -- Inspectors, Medical -- Invalid Corps -- Jackson, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") -- Johnston, Albert Sidney -- Johnston, Joseph Eggleston -- Jones, Joseph -- Laboratories, Medical -- Latrines -- Laudanum -- Laundresses -- Lawson, Thomas -- Leale, Charles Augustus -- Letterman, Jonathan -- Lice -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice -- Maggots -- Malaria -- Malingerers -- Malnutrition -- Materia medica -- Matrons -- McCaw, James Brown -- McGuire, Hunter Holmes -- Measles -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion -- Medical cadets -- Medical department, Organization of -- Medical directors, Field -- Medical directors, of Hospitals -- Medical importance of the Civil War -- Medical purveyors -- Medication, Administration of -- Miasms -- Minié Balls -- Mitchell, Silas Weir -- Moore, Samuel Preston -- Morphine -- Mortality, of Soldiers -- Mortality, of Surgeons -- Mosquitoes -- Mudd, Samuel Alexander -- Musicians, as Medica assistants. Negligence, by Medical staff -- Newsom (Trader), Ella King -- Nightingale, Florence -- Nuns -- Nurses -- Officer of the day -- Olmsted, Frederick Law -- Opiate use and addiction -- P.A.C.S. -- Pember, Phoebe Yates Levy -- Peninsula Campaign (1862) -- Pneumonia -- Porcher, Francis Peyre -- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Prisoners of war -- Quartermasters -- Quinine -- Quintard, Charles Todd -- Resection -- Reserve Surgical Corps -- Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests -- Rheumatism -- Richmond, Virginia -- Sanitary fairs -- Sanitation -- Scurvy -- Shiloh, Battle of (1862) -- Sicles, Daniel Edgar -- Smallpox -- Southern Practitioner -- Splints -- Stewards, Hospital -- Stout, Samuel Hollingworth -- Stretchers -- Strong, George Templeton -- Subsistence Department -- Substitutes, for Supplies -- Supply table -- Surgeon General -- Surgeons -- Surgeons, Acting assistant (Contract) -- Surgeons, Assistant -- Surgeons, Brigade -- Surgeons, Post -- Surgeon's call. Tartar Emetic -- Tents, Hospital -- Tetanus -- Tompkins, Sally Louisa -- Tripler, Charles Stuart -- Tuberculosis -- Turner's Lane Hospital -- Typhoid fever -- Typhomalarial fever -- United States Christian Commission -- USS Red Rover -- Vaccination, Smallpox -- Varioloid -- Venereal disease -- Ventilation -- Walker, Mary Edwards -- Ward Masters -- Washington, DC -- Western Sanitary Commission -- Whitman, Walt -- Wittenmyer, Annie Turner -- Woman's Central Association of Relief -- Women, as Doctors -- Women, as Hospital workers -- Women's hospital auxiliaries and relief societies -- Woodward, Joseph Janvier -- Woolsey Sisters -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author. Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Alcohol, Abuse of -- Alcohol, Medicinal uses of -- Alcott, Louisa May -- Alternative medicines -- Ambulance corps -- Ambulance trains -- Ambulances -- Amputation -- Andersonville Prison -- Anesthesia -- Antietam, Battle of (1862) -- Antiseptics and disinfectants -- Army Medical Museum -- Artificial limbs -- Association of Army and Navy Surgeons of the Confederate States -- Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy -- Autenrieth Medicine Wagon -- $g Bandages -- Barnes, Joseph K. -- Barton, Clara -- Bean, James Baxter -- Beers, Fannie A. -- Bellows, Henry Whitney -- Bickerdyke, Mary Ann Ball ("Mother") -- Blacks, as Hospital workers -- Blacks, Health of -- Blockade -- Brinton, John Hill -- Bull Run (Manassas), First Battle of (1861) -- Bull Run (Manassas), Second Battle of (1862) -- Calomel -- Camp itch -- Catarrh -- Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence -- Chaplains -- Chickamauga, Battle of (1863) -- Chimborazo Hospital -- Chisolm, John Julian -- Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal -- Convalescents -- Cooks -- Cumming, Kate -- Cupping and blistering. Davis, Jefferson -- Death, Attitudes toward -- Debilitas -- DeLeon, David Camden -- Dentistry -- Diarrhea and dysentery -- Diet, of Hospital patients -- Diet, of Troops -- Dix, Dorothea Lynde -- Education, Medical -- Elmira Prison -- Embalming -- Erysipelas -- Ewell, Richard Stoddert -- Examining Boards, Medical -- Eye ailments -- Fevers -- Finley, Clement Alexander -- Flewellen, Edward Archelaus -- Foard, Andrew Jackson -- Formento, Felix -- Fredericksburg, Battle of (1862) -- Gangrene, Hospital -- Gettysburg, Battle of (1863) -- Guild, Lafayette -- Gunshot wounds, Treatment of -- Hammond, William Alexander -- Hardtack -- Hawks, Esther Hill -- Heart disease -- Historiography, Medical -- Hoge, Jane Currie Blaikie -- Hood, John Bell -- Hopkins, Juliet Ann Opie -- Hospital buildings -- Hospital fund -- Hospital paperworks -- Hospital relocations -- Hospital ships -- Hospital support staff -- Hospitals, Antebellum -- Hospitals, attitudes toward -- Hospitals, Field -- Hospitals, General -- Hospitals, Officers' -- Hospitals, Pavilion -- Hospitals, "Pest" (Smallpox) -- Hospitals, Receiving and distributing -- Hospitals, Wayside. Infections, of Wounds -- Insanity -- Inspectors, Medical -- Invalid Corps -- Jackson, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") -- Johnston, Albert Sidney -- Johnston, Joseph Eggleston -- Jones, Joseph -- Laboratories, Medical -- Latrines -- Laudanum -- Laundresses -- Lawson, Thomas -- Leale, Charles Augustus -- Letterman, Jonathan -- Lice -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice -- Maggots -- Malaria -- Malingerers -- Malnutrition -- Materia medica -- Matrons -- McCaw, James Brown -- McGuire, Hunter Holmes -- Measles -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion -- Medical cadets -- Medical department, Organization of -- Medical directors, Field -- Medical directors, of Hospitals -- Medical importance of the Civil War -- Medical purveyors -- Medication, Administration of -- Miasms -- Minié Balls -- Mitchell, Silas Weir -- Moore, Samuel Preston -- Morphine -- Mortality, of Soldiers -- Mortality, of Surgeons -- Mosquitoes -- Mudd, Samuel Alexander -- Musicians, as Medica assistants. Negligence, by Medical staff -- Newsom (Trader), Ella King -- Nightingale, Florence -- Nuns -- Nurses -- Officer of the day -- Olmsted, Frederick Law -- Opiate use and addiction -- P.A.C.S. -- Pember, Phoebe Yates Levy -- Peninsula Campaign (1862) -- Pneumonia -- Porcher, Francis Peyre -- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Prisoners of war -- Quartermasters -- Quinine -- Quintard, Charles Todd -- Resection -- Reserve Surgical Corps -- Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests -- Rheumatism -- Richmond, Virginia -- Sanitary fairs -- Sanitation -- Scurvy -- Shiloh, Battle of (1862) -- Sicles, Daniel Edgar -- Smallpox -- Southern Practitioner -- Splints -- Stewards, Hospital -- Stout, Samuel Hollingworth -- Stretchers -- Strong, George Templeton -- Subsistence Department -- Substitutes, for Supplies -- Supply table -- Surgeon General -- Surgeons -- Surgeons, Acting assistant (Contract) -- Surgeons, Assistant -- Surgeons, Brigade -- Surgeons, Post -- Surgeon's call. Negligence, by Medical staff -- Newsom (Trader), Ella King -- Nightingale, Florence -- Nuns -- Nurses -- Officer of the day -- Olmsted, Frederick Law -- Opiate use and addiction -- P.A.C.S. -- Pember, Phoebe Yates Levy -- Peninsula Campaign (1862) -- Pneumonia -- Porcher, Francis Peyre -- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Prisoners of war -- Quartermasters -- Quinine -- Quintard, Charles Todd -- Resection -- Reserve Surgical Corps -- Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests -- Rheumatism -- Richmond, Virginia -- Sanitary fairs -- Sanitation -- Scurvy -- Shiloh, Battle of (1862) -- Sicles, Daniel Edgar -- Smallpox -- Southern Practitioner -- Splints -- Stewards, Hospital -- Stout, Samuel Hollingworth -- Stretchers -- Strong, George Templeton -- Subsistence Department -- Substitutes, for Supplies -- Supply table -- Surgeon General -- Surgeons -- Surgeons, Acting assistant (Contract) -- Surgeons, Assistant -- Surgeons, Brigade -- Surgeons, Post -- Surgeon's call. Tartar Emetic -- Tents, Hospital -- Tetanus -- Tompkins, Sally Louisa -- Tripler, Charles Stuart -- Tuberculosis -- Turner's Lane Hospital -- Typhoid fever -- Typhomalarial fever -- United States Christian Commission -- USS Red Rover -- Vaccination, Smallpox -- Varioloid -- Venereal disease -- Ventilation -- Walker, Mary Edwards -- Ward Masters -- Washington, DC -- Western Sanitary Commission -- Whitman, Walt -- Wittenmyer, Annie Turner -- Woman's Central Association of Relief -- Women, as Doctors -- Women, as Hospital workers -- Women's hospital auxiliaries and relief societies -- Woodward, Joseph Janvier -- Woolsey Sisters -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author. Tartar Emetic -- Tents, Hospital -- Tetanus -- Tompkins, Sally Louisa -- Tripler, Charles Stuart -- Tuberculosis -- Turner's Lane Hospital -- Typhoid fever -- Typhomalarial fever -- United States Christian Commission -- USS Red Rover -- Vaccination, Smallpox -- Varioloid -- Venereal disease -- Ventilation -- Walker, Mary Edwards -- Ward Masters -- Washington, DC -- Western Sanitary Commission -- Whitman, Walt -- Wittenmyer, Annie Turner -- Woman's Central Association of Relief -- Women, as Doctors -- Women, as Hospital workers -- Women's hospital auxiliaries and relief societies -- Woodward, Joseph Janvier -- Woolsey Sisters -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.