Forget nip/tuck, plastic surgery had a whole different meaning during the Civil War.
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One of the greatest innovations of Civil War medicine was … a museum.
One of the first riots in the United States was fought not over the living, but the dead.
Discover how the US Army instituted a revolutionary new form of trauma care on Civil War battlefields.
Military medical illustration came of age during the early 1860s with the outbreak of the Civil War.
Devotees of this controversial science believed that the shape of one’s skull reflected the form of the brain and therefore revealed inner character.
Meet Silas Weir Mitchell, the father of neurology in America.
Over 95% of Civil War surgeries occurred under anesthesia.
“The Battle of Antietam was probably the most picturesque battle of the war…. The battle was a dramatic and most magnificent series of pictures.” Illustrator Edwin Forbes
