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French doctor Dominique Larrey made advances in military medicine during the 1789-1799 French Revolution and the 1800-1815 Napoleonic Wars.Conditions at military hospitals during the 1853-1856 Crimean War were improved by the British civilian volunteers led by Florence Nightingale and the British military doctor James Barry.
At the start of the Civil War, Letterman was Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac. He was named medical director of the Department of West Virginia in May 1862. A month later William A. Hammond, Surgeon General of the U.S. Army appointed him, with the rank of major, as the medical director of the Army of the Potomac itself.
Schmidt, James M. and Guy R. Hasegawa, eds. Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine. (2009). Schroeder–Lein, Glenna R. The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine (2012) Schultz, Jane E. Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
An advertisement from 1896 for a medicine containing calomel. Calomel was a popular medicine used during the Victorian period, and was widely used as a treatment for a variety of ailments during the American Civil War. The medication was available in two forms, blue pills and blue masses. [11]
During the Spanish Civil War there were two major advances. The first one was the invention of a practical method for transporting blood . Developed in Barcelona by Duran i Jordà , the technique mixed the blood of the donors with the same blood type and then, using Grifols glass tubes and a refrigerator truck , transported the blood to the ...
Built sometime after July 8, 1863, [5] it opened on July 22, [6] and was named Camp Letterman in honor of Jonathan Letterman, M.D., the "Father of Battlefield Medicine" who created medical management procedures which transformed not only Civil War-era medicine, but the medical care for thousands of soldiers in subsequent wars, the tents of the ...
This category is for medical facilities and hospitals used during the American Civil War by the Confederate or Union armies. Pages in category "American Civil War hospitals" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total.
Although war causes many casualties, for every man that died from battle during the Civil War, two men died from disease. Dysentery, diarrhea, typhoid and malaria were all diseases caused by the overcrowdedness and unsanitary conditions during the war. People began addressing the importance of having clean water, clean food, and fresh air to ...