When Dr. Foster diagnosed Tom with irritable heart, did he essentially diagnose him with the Civil War’s equivalent of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? Not exactly.
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Medicine And Drugs
Intrigued by Samuel Digg’s character, our editor asked Dr. Robert G. Slawson, author of Prologue to Change: African Americans in the Civil War Era to write a brief introduction as to what the education and military service of African American physicians would have been like.
If Hastings really was a Nightingale-nurse, she forgot some of her most important lessons.
Learn more about the doctor that diagnosed “irritable heart.”
Ashley Bowen shares the history of irritable heart, a brand new diagnosis in 1862.
Mercy Street is a good introduction into the world of Civil War medicine. As someone who has worked within the field as a public historian, it is incredible to watch a Civil War hospital ward come to life. The authenticity they achieved in crafting the world of Mansion House Hospital shines through, and the medicine you will see in the series won’t disappoint either.
Jonathan Letterman changed the course of the Civil War and of American medicine.
