Medicine on the battlefield has always been inspired by urgency and improvisation, and the American Civil War highlights just how much human courage contributed to advancements.

A ward in Carver Hospital in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. One key innovation during this period was the division of hospitals into wards based on disease. U.S. National Archives In 1862, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The staff of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick regularly tells visitors of the war's many medical ...

My grandfather told me that when he was a boy, he would steal glances at a Civil War veteran sitting in church every Sunday. The man had a gaping hole in his forehead, a gruesome reminder of the ...

The Civil War might seem to today's physicians like a quaint anachronism, irrelevant to modern concerns, a blurred panorama of drunken surgeons wiping their scalpels on blood-soaked aprons and ...

Explore Frederick's important role in the history of medicine. Frederick, Maryland, played a vital role during the Civil War, serving as a key medical hub for wounded soldiers from the battles of ...

Visit the Fort Morgan Library/Museum on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at noon to learn about “Medicine and Nursing in the American Civil War.” The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, and continued until April 9, ...

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