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Edward Perry Vollum

d. 1902

A 19th-century U.S. Army surgeon and medical inspector, he wrote practical medical circulars during the Civil War and later published on public health questions. His surviving work shows a physician concerned with military medicine, disease, and the spread of medical knowledge.

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Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented

Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented

by William Tebb, Edward Perry Vollum

About the author

Edward Perry Vollum was a physician best remembered today through 19th-century medical publications. Records from the Internet Archive identify him as the author of a Civil War-era circular issued in 1864 by the Office of the Medical Inspector and Chief Medical Officer of the U.S. Army's Military Division of West Mississippi, where he is named as a lieutenant colonel, medical inspector, and chief medical officer.

That surviving publication suggests a career closely tied to military medicine and administration during the American Civil War. Library records also connect his name with later medical writing, indicating an ongoing interest in disease and public health beyond wartime service.

Because the readily available sources found here are limited and somewhat fragmentary, many personal details about his life are hard to confirm confidently. Still, the published record presents him as one of the physician-authors who helped document and organize medical practice in the 19th century.