Discover how the US Army instituted a revolutionary new form of trauma care on Civil War battlefields.
by David Price
Mercy Street
Victorian Americans, like us, spent a lot of time thinking about how to not get pregnant.
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.
After emancipation, what came next? Overcrowded and unsanitary, health conditions in contraband camps made freedpeople increasingly susceptible to smallpox.
Devotees of this controversial science believed that the shape of one’s skull reflected the form of the brain and therefore revealed inner character.
Over 95% of Civil War surgeries occurred under anesthesia.
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