Meet the first amputee of the Civil War: the man who will go on to create a prosthetic empire.
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Many of the rituals that we now understand to make up the American funerary tradition were developed and shaped in the 19th century
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.
Over 400 women disguised themselves as men during the American Civil War. How did they do it?
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.
