Charles Stuart Moody

Charles Stuart Moody was a physician and author best known for Backwoods Surgery & Medicine, a compact guide aimed at campers, hunters, and others traveling in remote places. The book was published by Outing Publishing Company in 1910 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg.

From the book itself, Moody presents his advice as the result of more than twenty years of medical work in mining camps, lumber camps, and other isolated settings. That background gives his writing a practical, experience-based feel: he focuses on fractures, burns, wounds, drowning, camp diseases, snakebite, and the basic supplies a traveler should carry.

Reliable biographical details about his wider life are limited in the sources I could confirm during this search, so it is safest to remember him mainly through this one enduring work. Even today, his book offers an interesting snapshot of frontier-style medicine and the kind of self-reliance expected in the outdoors a century ago.