5 Medical Innovations from the Civil War
Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.
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Chloroform and the American Civil War:
Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...
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From the Collections: Civil War Doctors
We recently had a research request regarding women physicians and their role in the Civil War. At least two Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania graduates and one student provided medical care on ...
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Martin Henry Jourdan: consultant surgeon who in his youth cared for patients amid civil war in a tented hospital in Yemen’s desert
As a student at Guy’s Hospital Medical School in the 1960s, Martin Jourdan volunteered with the Red Cross in Yemen, a country in the middle of civil war. He served as a junior house doctor in a tented ...
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From the Collections: Women Physicians at War
We have previously taken a brief look at female doctors who served during the Civil War; today, with Veterans' Day upon us ... A bill to allow female physicians full appointments in the Army and Navy ...
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Medicine: War Fugues
As medical chief of Boots ... but break down in civil life many years later. The old phrase “shell shock” denoted any kind of war madness which was presumably brought on by detonation of ...
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Chloroform and the American Civil War:
Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...