Notes on the Surgery of the War in the Crimea
Notes on the Surgery of the War in the Crimea

Author: George Husband Baird Macleod

Publisher:

Published: 1858

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13:

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"First edition containing a record of the author's extensive experiences in the Crimean War during which he served as chief surgeon to the British army. Macleod was present at Smyrna and Sebastopol, and he describes the high mortalityrates for all of the standard operations. He recommended amputation despite the likelihood of unfavorable outcome (for excision of the hip joint the mortality was one hundred percent), since delay led to even greater loss of life. The war in the Crimea, according to the author, 'added little to our medical knowledge. Its short duration prevented this; yet it has shown us wounds of a severity, perhaps, never before equalled' (p. vii). A Philadelphia edition for use by Union surgeons during the Civil War was published in 1862. An edition for use by Confederate surgeons was published in 1862 in Richmond."--Antiquarian bookseller's description.

Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War
Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War

Author: Lynn McDonald

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 1098

ISBN-13: 1554587476

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Florence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale’s correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale’s efforts to achieve real reforms. Her well-known, and relatively “sanitized”, evidence to the royal commission on the war is compared with her confidential, much franker, and very thorough Notes on the Health of the British Army, where the full horrors of disease and neglect are laid out, with the names of those responsible.

Crimea in War and Transformation
Crimea in War and Transformation

Author: Mara Kozelsky

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0190644710

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Crimea in War and Transformation is the first exploration of the civilian experience during the Crimean War to appear in English. Beginning with Russian mobilization in 1852 and lasting through demobilization in 1857, the conflict devastated the peoples and landscapes of Crimea as well as the volatile southern borderlands of the Russian Empire, leading to the largest war recovery program yet undertaken by the Russian government.