Exhibit information:

Amputation kits, a doctor’s description of vaccination against smallpox, and illustrated texts detailing medicine during the Civil War

Top shelf: Book, Diary of Captain Daniel Cushing; letter from Dr. John B. Rice; book, Hand-book for the Military Surgeon by Charles Stuart Tripler; report of wartime(?) sick and wounded; Dr. William Caldwell’s letter to his parents and his address to the Northwestern Ohio Medical Association

Middle shelf: Buchanan and MacGahan military pension applications; statement of gunshot wounds and surgical operations; Civil War field amputation kit

Bottom shelf: Book, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion; advertisement for an invalid’s chair with leg rest; Civil War surgical kit; an advertisement in “Catalogue of Orthopedic Appliances”

Related Collection:

BUCHANAN AND MacGAHAN MILITARY PENSION APPLICATIONS, 1875-1889, MSS-046 [PDF]