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Six Ways the Civil War Changed American Medicine

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In 1862, U.S. Surgeon General William Hammond put out a call to medical field officers in the Union Army: Send any specimens of morbid anatomy that might be valuable to military medicine and...

Civil War Medicine: An Overview of Medicine | eHISTORY

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Generally, Civil War doctors underwent two years of medical school, though some pursued more education. Medicine in the United States was woefully behind Europe. Harvard …

Medicine in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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Civil War Medicine Articles | American …

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Nurses, surgeons, and physicians rose to the challenge of healing a nation and advanced medicine …

National Museum of Civil War Medicine

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Bellevue Hospital is one of the oldest medical institutions in the United States originating as an 18th century poorhouse. [ More ] Getting On the Right Track—The Evolution of Civil …

Health and Medicine During the Civil War – History …

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Over the course of the Civil War, three out of four surgeries (or approximately 60,000 operations) were amputations. This number of amputations earned surgeons …

How Civil War Medicine Led to America's First Opioid Crisis

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Injured soldiers at Armory Square Hospital during the U.S. Civil War. Credit: Bettmann / Contributor During the Civil War, military hospitals considered opioids to be …

Civil War medicine: 37 pieces of history

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National Museum of Civil War Medicine Some powders were carried in paper packets instead of tins or bottles. Calomel was used as a remedy for diarrhea and …

Female Nurses During the Civil War | American …

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At the start of the Civil War, some women argued that the war “was as much a woman’s war as it was a man’s war”. Over 21,000 women served in Union military …

Civil War Medicine - Civil War Academy

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Now the one piece of medical technology during the Civil War that was actually quite beneficial to patients was Chloroform. This was an anesthetic that was invented during …