Book by Gurdon Buck, Army Medical Museum contributor, for sale

Buck donated his photos of Civil War plastic surgery to the museum, which also has a copy of his book, courtesy of Dr. Blair Rogers, who wrote about him in plastic surgery journals.

Contributions to Reparative Surgery: Showing Its Application to the Treatment of Deformities, Produced by Destructive Disease or Injury; Congenital Defects From Arrest or Excess of Development; and Cicatricial Contractions From Burns By Gurdon Buck New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876. First Edition. Octavo, viii, [1], 8-237, [3], 3-30, [2] pages. In Very Good minus condition. Gurdon Buck (1807-1877) was a pioneering military plastic surgeon during the Civil War. He is known for being the first doctor to incorporate pre- and post-operative photographs into his publications. Buck's fascia and Buck's extension are both named after him. $1,800  View Full Description Here

Military medicine history articles

From wagons to air ambulances: Medevac keeps the fight alive

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/569426/wagons-air-ambulances-medevac-keeps-fight-alive

Latest AMEDD Historian newsletter

The latest newsletter, No. 54, on the Civil War is online at https://auls.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01AULS_INST:Stimson&collectionId=81240848270009191&lang=en.

or https://archive.org/details/amedd-historian-number-54-summer-2026 

Fun, and mostly accurate, video on Navy Medicine in the Civil War

Navy Medicine in the Civil War and Today (featuring CAPT Teresa Dent, NC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBQdyPqwloE

RIP Norman Rich

 He wasn't a historian of medicine, but his long-term longitudinal followups become a history of some sort. Of interest to us is his preservation of military medical material from the Vietnam War, including booby traps, which are now in the National Museum of Health and Medicine.

https://news.usuhs.edu/2026/06/usu-mourns-passing-of-military-medicine.html

Fragility of Man photographs

https://www.instagram.com/fragility_of_man

My neighbor Roger, as well as being a firefighter, is an artist. He's more in the momento mori tradition than a medical museum one, but I think readers here will enjoy these. It's a plastic skeleton of course.

Beneath the Sheets: Anatomy, Art and Power exhibit at Thackray Museum of Medicine

The shocking truth behind historic anatomical art

Deborah Nicholls-Lee

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260203-the-shocking-truth-behind-historic-anatomical-art

The Maude Abbott Medical Museum's website

I got a very kind note from a staff member today, so for the first time in years, I popped over to their website. It's a nice, sleek guide, and I'm looking forward to checking out their newsletters. It's so nice to see photos of the museum; when I tried to find it about 35 years ago (sigh), I had no luck at all. Dr. Richard Fraser really revitalized the collection.

If anyone can recommend a good paper on Abbott, her role in the International Association of Medical Museums, and her work with the Army Medical Museum, I'd be grateful. I was starting to look into that via the IAMM's journal but never finished that research. I literally just moved cubicles again at my current job and was able to put my books on a bookshelf for the first time since COVID so I got to see all the medical museum histories again.