One of the greatest fears of a Civil War soldier was to be killed on the battlefield or to die in a field hospital as an unknown.
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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.
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.
The violence of the Civil War was previewed in Congress in May1856.
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An examination of the medical aspects of Lincoln’s assassination
