Learn about the medical schools and training available to Civil War doctors.
Medical Equipment
The history and use of an essential medical tool.
The last installment of our series features four more wounded generals.
Learn about more prominent generals wounded during the Civil War.
Learn about some prominent generals wounded during the Civil War.
Ice was considered a standard medical necessity and was supplied to Civil War hospitals in mass quantities.
Gangrene or hospital gangrene was one of the deadliest infections at the start of the Civil War.
The Civil War brought the hypodermic syringe into the mainstream of American medicine for the first time.
An examination of the medical aspects of Lincoln’s assassination