Creator:

Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896
United States Sanitary Commission

Publisher:

Arno Press

Title:

Discussion and illustration of spirometer used to measure lung capacity

Date:

1869

Description:

The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC), a civilian organization, sent physicians and others to inspect U.S. Army camps and hospitals during the Civil War, gathering data on camp and hospital conditions, health of the troops, and supplies needed. The USSC also gathered a wide variety of anthropological and sociological data on thousands of Union soldiers, hoping to determine "important facts relative to the moral and physical characteristics and capacities of our soldiers and of men in general." These pages showed the spirometer used by examiners to measure lung capacity, also called pulmonary or "vital" capacity. Pages 468-469 of Benjamin A. Gould, Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of American Soldiers. New York: Arno Press, 1979. (Reprint of Vol. 2 of the 1869 Edition of the United States Sanitary Commission's Sanitary Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion, published for the commission by Hurd and Houghton, New York.)

Rights:

The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.

Genre:

Monographs
Excerpts

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Language:

English

NLM ID:

9918573882206676X37

Profiles Collection:

Risk Factors: Measuring and Rating Health, Illness, and Mortality

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/9918573882206676X37

Story Section:

Data Collecting during the U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865

Exhibit Tags:

civil