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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The staff of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine has grown very happy with telling its story about the development of modern medicine from the perspective of Jonathan Letterman, a Union Army ...

‘Civil war’ in medical community on how to treat chronic pain leaves some patients terrified ‘beyond description’ The opioid epidemic that is sweeping the nation claimed a record 27,000 lives in 2014, ...