Ice was considered a standard medical necessity and was supplied to Civil War hospitals in mass quantities.
Hospitals
Gangrene or hospital gangrene was one of the deadliest infections at the start of the Civil War.
The 1st Minnesota played a critical role in the battle of Gettysburg.
Learn about the Titanic’s connection to Civil War medicine.
For the Civil War soldier on the march, heat became another enemy to fight.
The Civil War brought the hypodermic syringe into the mainstream of American medicine for the first time.
10 years after the Boston Marathon Bombing, learn how the Letterman System saved lives.
An examination of the medical aspects of Lincoln’s assassination
The Irish Brigade was one of the most famous units in the Civil War
