I am perhaps dying the medical backstory of spinal tuberculosis hidden in the Civil War diary of Leroy Wiley Gresham / Dennis A. Rasbach.

Contents Historical diagnosis I : clues from symptoms -- Historical diagnosis II : clues from medicines -- Historical diagnosis III : clues from physical treatments -- Tuberculosis -- Pott's disease : tuberculous spondylosis -- "Saw off my leg" -- LeRoy's doctors and medical care during the Civil War -- Pharmacopoeia of LeRoy Wiley Gresham -- Proprietary medicines -- Psychological considerations -- Postmortem analysis -- The natural history of tuberculosis.
General noteMedical supplement to The War outside My Window : the Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 / Janet Elizabeth Croon, ed. El Dorado Hills, California : Savas Beatie, [2018].
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2018019244
ISBN9781611214505 (pbk : alk. paper)

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