confederate Surgeon Samuel H. Stout (b, 1822 Medical Director of the Army of Tennessee who established widespread emergency hospitals near the battlefields for the treatment of the seriously wounded, and did much to build new hospitals and improved the conditions of those already existing Important AMs S. 4pp large 4to [n.p., n.d. but probably war-date], a lengthy report titled the best disinfecting agents In part the best means of purifying the atmosphere, in those places in which a number of human beings are compelled to reside view of preventing diseases or of dissipating and rendering inert contagious effluvia free circulation of pure air is of the first importance in all crowded apartments in hospitals or onboard ship of the chemical nature of the matter of contagion we know nothing definite. Some marginal chipping else very good