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The American Civil War was the first "modern war" in terms of technology and lethality of weapons. [50] "It was a conflict that prefigured our own time in its unanticipated scale and scope, in its incorporation of rapidly advancing technologies of firepower, transportation, and communication."
The 7,000-square-foot (650 m 2) museum consists of five immersion exhibits that recreate aspects of Civil War medical issues: life in an army camp, evacuation of the wounded from the battlefront, a field dressing station, a field hospital and a military hospital ward. The exhibits incorporate surviving tools and equipment from the war ...
Color plate of surgical instruments from the MSHWR Color plate of a wound patient from the MSHWR. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 1861–65 (the MSHWR) was a United States Government Printing Office publication consisting of six volumes, issued between 1870 and 1888 and "prepared Under the Direction of Surgeon General United States Army, Joseph K. Barnes".
The most significant were the archive of Civil War medical records (essential for verification of veterans' pension claims), the Army Medical Museum (now the National Museum of Health and Medicine), the editorial offices for preparation of the multi-volume Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, and the Library of the Surgeon ...
Medicine portal This category is for articles and subcategories related to the medical services during the American Civil War . Wikimedia Commons has media related to American Civil War medicine .
135th Medical Battalion, End of World War II [10] 151st Medical Battalion, End of World War II [10] 168th Medical Battalion [187] Camp Shanks, New York, 30 October 1945; Fort Lewis, Washington, 21 June 1971; 180th Medical Battalion, Camp Miles Standish, Massachusetts, 23 November 1945 [188] 232nd Medical Composite Battalion, Italy, 12 May 1946 [26]
The majority of the history of amputation blade evolution is referenced from the medical textbook Handbook of Surgical Operations, U.S.A. Medical Department, 1863, written during the Civil War by Stephen Smith, M.D., with various drawings from the medical literature credited to Bourgery & Jocob.
Medical advances also provided kinder methods for treatment of battlefield injuries, such as antiseptic ointments, which replaced boiling oil for cauterizing amputations. [15] During the Spanish Civil War there were two major advances. The first one was the invention of a practical method for transporting blood.