Foreword: The Uses of Local History -- Prelude to the Military Physicians in the Great Basin (1840-1857) -- The Great Basin Pre-War and Civil War Forts (1857-1865) -- Founding of the Great Basin Post-Civil War Forts (1865-1870) Closure of the Great Basin Forts (1866-1893) -- Physician Training and Knowledge of Disease in the Late 19th Century -- The Practice of Medicine at Great Basin Military Hospitals -- Evaluation of Physicians by the Army during the Late 19th Century -- Diseases of Soldiers Stationed in the Great Basin -- Non-military Activities of the Great Basin Army Surgeons -- APPENDICES. I. Great Basin Military Surgeons’ Biographies ; II. Data on Great Basin Military Physicians ; III. Bryant’s Letter about the Pyramid Lake War ; IV. Diagnoses of Patients Admitted to Fort Churchill’s Hospital ; V. Diagnoses of Patients Admitted to Saint Mary Louise Hospital.
ILLUSTRATIONS. Troops Departing Fort Bidewell -- 19-Century Military Map of the Great Basin -- Army Doctor Washington Matthews -- Indian Scout Joe Bowers -- Company of Sioux Indians at Fort Douglas -- Army Doctor Benjamin Franklin Pope -- Doctor Anton William Tjader, Nevada Militia -- Army Doctor John Jefferson Milhau -- Plan of Fort Churchill’s Hospital -- Caves at Fort Independence -- Army Doctor William Cline Borden -- Army Doctor Charles Smart -- Army Doctor William Hemple Arthur -- Fort Douglas Hospital with Surgeon’s Quarters, 1864 -- Plan of Fort Douglas 1864 Hospital -- Army Doctor Edward Perry Vollum -- Fort Bidwell School -- Army Doctor George Martin Kober -- Army Doctor William Henry Corbusier -- Fort Churchill Hospital Ruins -- Army Doctor Adrian Suydam Polhemus -- Fort McDermit Hospital, 1884 -- Army Doctor William Pratt Kendall -- Fort Bidwell Hospital, 1870s -- Kober’s Quarters at Fort Bidwell, 1885 -- Fort Douglas Hospital 1875 -- Assistant Surgeon Charles B. Bryne -- Army Doctor Alfred C. Girard -- 19th Century Pocket Medical Instruments -- Army Doctor Bernard Semig -- Army Doctor George Durfee Deshon -- Army Doctor Robert Maitland O'Reilly -- Wiliam Hemple Arthur’s Cartoon -- Army Doctor Charles Carrol Furley -- Nineteenth Century Amputation Saw.
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