Editor's Note: Dr. Shauna Devine is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...
The Civil War might seem to today's physicians like a quaint anachronism, irrelevant to modern concerns, a blurred panorama of drunken surgeons wiping their scalpels on blood-soaked aprons and ...
Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War began in 1861. The sheer number of casualties gave surgeons on both sides the opportunity to gain experience with the first two anesthetic ...
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Alcohol, Abuse of -- Alcohol, Medicinal uses of -- Alcott, Louisa May -- Alternative medicines -- Ambulance corps -- Ambulance ...
The staff of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine has grown very happy with telling its story about the development of modern medicine from the perspective of Jonathan Letterman, a Union Army ...
“Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine” traveling exhibition will be held at the Luzerne County Community College Library through March 8. The National Library of ...
U.S. Army Col. Charles “Chuck” Bane Jr.’s family, friends, and colleagues with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity (USAMMDA) attended his promotion ceremony the day before Thanksgiving ...
The mental image that comes to most minds when asked to picture a Civil War solider is that of a young man in a blue or gray uniform. Indeed, the vast majority of 19th-century fighting forces fit that ...
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