Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal
Selected Articles from and Information about the Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal, published in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

This medical journal began being published in January 1864, and was a continuation of a pre-war publication, also edited by J. B. McCaw.

McCaw solicited articles from surgeons across the Confederacy. This section contains articles about the journal as well as selected articles from it.

Written Accounts

1863-02, CSMSJ Vol. I, No. 2; report by Surg. A. Y. P. Garnett on the use of Nelaton's probes - includes a case of a patient at Robertson Hospital. Mentions being assisted by Surg. Bolton.
1864-01, CSMSJ Vol. I, No. 1; statistics of Winder and Chimborazo hospitals through 1863. Winder's mortality rate is 5.37% and Chimborazo's is 6.42%
1864-01. CSMSJ Vol. I, No. 1; report by Surg. W. A. Davis of a tetanus case at Chimborazo Hospital
1864-04, CSMSJ Vol. I, No. 4; report of John Stainback Wilson, Surg. Jackson Hospital of an interesting resection case
1864-07, CSMSJ Vol. I, No. 7; report of Surg. Charles Bell Gibson of a plastic surgeon operation at General Hospital No. 1 (includes engraving)
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