Autobiography of Silas Thompson Trowbridge M.D. - Trowbridge, Silas Thompson

A remarkable account of nineteenth-century medicine, politics, and personal life that recovers the captivating experiences of a Civil War-era regimental surgeon who was also a president of the Illinois State Medical Society and a United States consul in Mexico. In this first paperback edition, Trowbridge's memoirs are reprinted as they originally appeared.