Historian Michelle Herbelin explains how medical practice changed from the United States War with Mexico in 1846 to the Civil War in 1861.
by David Price
Civil War Medicine Origins
On May 11 celebrate National Nurses Week and Florence Nightingale’s birthday by discovering how she influenced medical care in the US before the Civil War.
Learn the story of an often forgotten signer of the Declaration of Independence who changed American medical history forever – Benjamin Rush.
