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, ...

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.

Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War began in 1861. The sheer number of casualties gave surgeons on both sides the opportunity to gain experience with the first two anesthetic ...

Most Civil War histories evoke the bravura of 19th century military skill, of masses of men moving across open fields to face other orderly masses of men and commence killing each other. Few books ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Alcohol, Abuse of -- Alcohol, Medicinal uses of -- Alcott, Louisa May -- Alternative medicines -- Ambulance corps -- Ambulance ...

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, ...

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- It was like the days when there was no King in Israel! -- People of this state have been bled long enough -- It is a good big work I have in mind -- He is our man -- ...

Watching crews put the finishing touches on a Presidio building renovation, you might not realize the bulldozers are working directly beneath one of the oldest operating rooms in the Bay Area. An ...