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This medical journal of Dr. Thomas H. Hammond of Oxford, Florida, details medical examinations of Civil War veterans required for approval of pension applications or for an increase in an existing pension allowance. Dr. Hammond conducted the examinations for veterans of the Civil War and a smaller number of veterans who served later as required by the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions.
For each individual examined, the reports include such information as type of pension claim (original, increase, or restoration); pension claim number; claimant's name, rank, company, and regiment; post office address of examining surgeon and claimant; cause of disability; current pension amount; claimant's statement as to reason for claim; and the physician's examination report, including pulse rate, respiration, temperature, height, weight, age, and a detailed narrative description of wounds, conditions, disabilities. In some later cases, Dr. Hammond also recommends a pension amount.
The volume includes a small notebook of writings about health and medicine, describing many common medicines of the time as poison. The notebook does not appear to be in the same hand as that of Dr. Hammond's medical examinations; it may have been written by Dr. George Washington Wood, who received his medical degree from Birmingham Medical College and later settled in Oxford, Florida, where he came into possession of the medical journal.
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Searchable transcript in electronic form produced and published by the Florida State Genealogical Society. Content of this publication was previously printed in "The Florida Genealogist" as a series.
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Donated to Florida State Genealogical Society by Mr. Charles Wood; passed down from Dr. George Washington Wood of Oxford, Florida.
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