The bloodiest war in American history was also one of the most influential in battlefield medicine. Civil War surgeons ...

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 ...

Episode 203 of Mercy Street introduces viewers to a new character, an anatomical artist from Paris, named Lisette. How was anatomical practice and medicine recorded during the war? Historians examine ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Army Col. Charles “Chuck” Bane Jr.’s family, friends, and colleagues with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity (USAMMDA) attended his promotion ceremony the day before Thanksgiving ...

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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 ...