1865 NEW YORK LANCET. Civil War Era Medical Journal. Abraham Lincoln, Insanity, Venereal Diseases, &c.

A very rare American-issue imprint of one of the most significant medical journals of the 19th century, The London Lancet. This American edition includes an in-depth article on the specific injuries sustained during the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, content related to the treatment of gunshot wounds, extensive content on amputation, and more content relevant to the period. See more detailed catalogue of contents below. 

Additionally, it includes extensive accounts of individual case studies submitted from hospitals and surgeons from America, England, and the Continent. 

Fascinating little provenance as well. This volume retains its original period ex library bookplate on the pastedown from the "Medical Library. No. 459. Government Hospital for the Insane. Washington D.C." With later associated stamps from the Library of Congress. 

Bennet, J. Henry and T. Wakley Jr. [eds.]. The London Lancet. A Journal of British and Foreign Medical, Surgical, and Chemical Science, Criticism, Literature, and News. For the Year 1865 [July to December Complete]. New York. 1865. 

Contents include Addison's Disease by E. Headlam Greenhow; The Use of the Laryngoscope by E. H. Sievering; Excision of the Wrist for Caries by Joseph Lister; Observations on Lithotomy by James R. Lane [Removal of Kidney Stones, with "Evocative" Illustration]; A Splint and its Adaptation to Fractures of the Phalanges by W. St. John Coleman; On the Cerebro-Spinal Symptoms and Lesions of Typhus Fever. And on the Relation of Typhus to Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis by Chrales Murchison; Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis by Samuel Wilks; Complications in Labour Caused by Irregularity of the Sacrum with Infantile Hydrocephalus by D. Johnson; On Surgery in Children; Erectile Glossitis; Treatment of a Fractured Cranium from a Horse Kick; Avulsion of Nearly the Whole of the Scalp by Machinery; On Delirium or Acute Insanity During the Decline of Acute Diseases by Hermann Weber; The Penalties of Midwifery Practice; On the Treatment of Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries by William W. Keen [Civil War]; Mr. Henry Smith's Fatal Case of Stricture of the Urethra Following the Use of Holt's Dilator; Structure of the Urethra, Kidney Disease, and Death; Uterine Tents; On the Use of Stimulants and Port Wine in Infants; Small-Pox versus Insanity; Diseases of the Rectum by James R. Lane; Progressive Locomotor Ataxy or Duchennes Disease; by J. S. Ramskill; O the Pathology and Treatment of Hepatic Abscess by C. Morehead; Aphasia or the Loss of the Power of Speech by Frederic Batemann; On Mental Impressions as a Cause of Bodily Deformity; Assassination by Poisoned Clothing; The Treatment of Syphilis by Syphilization; Uterine Surgery Illustrated by J.Marion Sims; On the Surgical Treatment of Painful Menstruation by J. Henry Bennet; Tapeworm Treated Successfully with the Oil of the Male Fern by John Constable; Arsenic Eating; A New Patent for a Pneumatic Enema [with illustration]; Progress of Surgery During the Present Century by William Fergusson; New Remedial Agent in the Treatment of Insanity by S. Newington [Narcotics]; The Treatment of Hepatitis in its Early and Suppurative Stages by J. C. Cameron; etc. etc. etc. 

Binding fair only, front board detached, heavily rubbed. Contents good + with tide mark on first few leaves. Remainder clean, crisp, and sound. Woodcut prints throughout.