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Six Ways the Civil War Changed American Medicine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/six-ways-civil-war-changed-american-medicine-180955626/

Medicine in the United States did some significant evolving during the Civil War. Prior to the war, humoral theory —where an imbalance between the body’s “humours” caused illness—still formed...

Civil War Medicine Articles | American Battlefield Trust

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For medical practitioners in the field during the Civil War, germ theory, antiseptic (clean) medical practices, advanced …

Medicine in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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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 …

How The Civil War Transformed U.S. Medicine

https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2013/09/03/how-the-civil-war-transformed-u-s-medicine/

I suggested, that in spite of these limitations, Union army physicians rose to the challenges of the war, using methods of study and experimentation, including …

“They Did Not Seem to Respect It Much”: Insignia and …

https://www.civilwarmed.org/surgeons-call/medical-evacuation-insignia/

The Civil War created a massive humanitarian crisis by the sheer scale of wounding and death. Mass casualty events were distressingly common throughout the conflict. These previously unimaginable …

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

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During the Civil War, military hospitals considered opioids to be essential medicine. Doctors and nurses used opium and morphine to treat soldiers’ pain, stop …

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 …

American Civil War Medical Care & Medicine: Facts, …

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In the Civil War, the most common cause of death was not related to battlefield injuries. Instead, disease was the cause of about two-thirds of casualties in the war. Cold winters, close living...

5 Medical Innovations of the Civil War | Mental Floss

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31326/5-medical-innovations-civil-war

Among French soldiers shot in the chest during the Crimean War (1853–1856), only 8 percent survived. The problem, as Howard came to realize, wasn’t the wound itself, but the sucking. The negative...