The exhaustive planning that went into saving lives during D-Day stems from the organizational efforts of surgeon Jonathan Letterman during the Civil War.
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Hospitals
Discover how the actions of Confederate surgeon Hunter Holmes McGuire changed the coarse of American military medicine forever.
The innovator who first utilized ether as an anesthetic more 15 years earlier, brought his techniques personally to wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
Using period references, Greg Susla reveals the various ways belladonna was used to treat injuries during the American Civil War.
Scholars talk a lot about what Civil War surgeons did, but no one seems to have asked: what did Civil War surgeons feel?
“All the houses within three miles of the field were taken for hospitals.”
In an age many consider to be medically archaic, medical professionals were already making connections between good ventilation, cleanliness, and health.
Retired pharmacist Greg Susla spotlights the medical benefits of foxglove and how it was used during the American Civil War.
One of our most commonly asked questions is “Where did all those soldiers go to the bathroom?” The story of Civil War sanitation and sewage in hospitals is not often told, but one that should not be neglected.
