Lincoln and Medicine

Index

121 Index Abell, Elizabeth, 3 Adams, George Worthington, xii aging, of presidents, 41, 44 Aigner, Godfrey, 58 A. Lincoln (White), xii ambulance, 34 American Presidents (C-SPAN), 50 Amnesty Proclamation, 68–69 amputations, 65 aortic insufficiency, 37, 40 aortic regurgitation, 37 Arlington Cemetery, 88 Armory Square Hospital (Washington , DC), 74–76, 78 Army Medical Museum, 66 Army of the Potomac, 31, 34–35, 65 Army Relief Bazaar (Albany, NY), 69 artificial respiration, 76 ataxia: characteristics of, 45; mentioned , xi, 37, 45 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , 13, 37 Augur, Christopher C., 78 Bailhache, Preston H., 14 Baker, Jean, 54, 85 Baker, Julia Edwards, 24 Barnes, John S., 34–35 Barnes, Joseph K., 59–60, 76–78 Bates, Julia, 23 Bates, Therena, 20 beds, sharing of, 50–54 Bellevue Hospital Medical College (NY), 74 Bellevue Place Sanitarium (Batavia, IL), 84–85 Bellows, Henry W., 25 Berea, Abigail C., 63 bilious fever, 21 bipolar (manic-depressive), 6, 9, 86 blacks, attack on Lincoln by, 2 Blair, Montgomery, 70 bleeding, 5 Bliss, D. Willard, 76 blistering, 5 blue mass, 14–15 blue pills, 14–16, 32–33 Blum, Edward, 55 Bollet, Alfred Jay, Civil War Medicine , xii Booth, John Wilkes, 74–75, 79 Borit, Adam, 83 Borritt, Gabor S., 83 Bradwell, James, 84 Bradwell, Myra, 84 Brodie, William, 60 bronchopneumonia, 22 Brooks, Noah, 27, 30 Brown, Charles D., 79 Brown, Elizabeth Grimsley. See Grimsley, Elizabeth Todd Browning, Eliza, 23 Browning, Orville H., 18, 23, 25–26, 32, 61, 64, 85 Brust, James S., 86 Bryan, Thomas Barbour, 68 Buchanan, James, 49 Buell, Don Carlos, 60 bumps, facial, 41, 44, 83 Bunn, Jacob, 84 Burlingame, Michael, 55 Burnett’s Cocoaine, 14 Butler, Benjamin F., 31, 75 cabinet meetings, 29, 31, 33, 70 calomel, 5, 14–16, 32–33 Cameron, Simon, 57–60 Campbell Hospital (Washington, DC), 65–66 cancer, 21, 37, 41, 44, 83; adrenal gland, 41; thyroid, 41 cardiac insufficiency, 37 Carpenter, Francis, 25, 35 Chandler, Zachariah, 60 122 | Index chaplains, hospital, 61 Chase, Salmon P., 26, 31, 53 Chesson, Michael B., 54 Chicago History Museum, 46, 48 Chicago Press and Tribune, 12 chicken pox, 30 Chittenden, Lucius E., 70 chloral hydrate, 85–86 chloroform, 26 cholera, 12 chromosomes, 45–46 Churchill, Winston, 37 City Point, VA, 31, 33–36 civilian aid, 57–58, 63, 65–66, 68–71 Civil War Medicine (Bollet), xii Clinton, Catherine, 85 cocaine, 14 “cocoaine,” 14 colds, 17, 20, 82 Columbian College Hospital (Washington , DC), 24, 63–66 congestive heart failure, 21, 37–38, 40, 82 connective tissue, 38 constipation, 5, 14, 40–41 consumption. See tuberculosis Corneau and Diller drugstore, 14–16 courts-martial, 62–63 Crane, Charles H., 76, 78 Crimean War, 57 cultural norms, 52–55 Cunningham, H. H., Doctors in Gray, xii Curtis, Edward, 46, 77–78 Dahlgren, John A., 27 Danforth, Willis, 85 Davis, Cullom, 47 Davis, David, 53, 83–85 Davis, N. S., 82 dental problems, 5–6, 13, 26 deoxyribonucleic acid. See DNA depression, 2–8, 37 Derickson, David, 52, 54 diabetes, 87–88 diarrhea, 41 Dignowitz, Anthony, 60 diphtheria, 11 discharges, medical, 63, 66 Dix, Dorothea, 23–24, 64 DNA: defined, 45–46; mitochondrial, 45–47; nuclear, 45–46 DNA testing, 45–49; problems of, 45–49 Doctors in Blue (Adams), xii Doctors in Gray (Cunningham), xii Doolittle, James, 65 double vision, 16 Douglas, Stephen A., 4, 49 Donald, David Herbert, Lincoln, xii Drake, Daniel, 7 dropsy of the chest, 82 drugstores, 14–16 Drum Beats (Shively), 50 Edwards, Elizabeth P. Todd, 10, 23–25, 64, 84–85, 87 Edwards, Matilda, 4 Ellsworth, Elmer, 18 Emancipation Proclamation, 68–69; preliminary, 69 Emerson, Jason, 81, 85–86 Emery, Mr., 61 Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine (Schroeder-Lein), xii epilepsy, 37; petit mal, 2 Evans, W. A., 22, 82, 86 Everett, Edward, 28, 69 eyes: crossed, 37, 39; problems with, 2, 10–11, 16, 37, 39, 87–88; wandering , 39 far-sightedness, 16, 39 feet, cold, 32, 40–41 Feldman, Robert G., 87 fellow-sufferers of medical conditions, 37, 40, 49–50, 55 Fessenden, William P., 17–18 fibrillin-1, 38 Finley, Clement A., 56–59 food poisoning, 19 Ford’s Theatre, 29, 35, 46, 74–76 Index | 123 Forsha, S. W., 63 Fort Pillow, 70 Frémont, John C., 58 French, Amos W., 14 French, Benjamin B., 27, 29, 31–32, 70, 73 fruit, 64–65 gas leak, 32 General Grant (ox), 69 genetic testing, 38, 45–49 Gentry, Allen...