Meet the first amputee of the Civil War: the man who will go on to create a prosthetic empire.
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Discover the stunning history of Civil War prosthetics and the men that wore them.
Forget nip/tuck, plastic surgery had a whole different meaning during the Civil War.
One of the greatest innovations of Civil War medicine was … a museum.
Discover how the US Army instituted a revolutionary new form of trauma care on Civil War battlefields.
A Civil War chaplain’s work was harrowing, improvised, and all too often underappreciated.
Military medical illustration came of age during the early 1860s with the outbreak of the Civil War.
After emancipation, what came next? Overcrowded and unsanitary, health conditions in contraband camps made freedpeople increasingly susceptible to smallpox.
Meet Silas Weir Mitchell, the father of neurology in America.
