Medical Treatment In 1862

Six Ways the Civil War Changed American Medicine

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In 1862, U.S. Surgeon General William Hammond put out a call to medical field officers in the Union Army: Send any specimens of morbid anatomy that might be valuable to military medicine and...

Medicine in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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Civil War Medicine Articles | American Battlefield Trust

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Nurses, surgeons, and physicians rose to the challenge of healing a nation and advanced medicine into the modern age. Walt …

Female Nurses During the Civil War | American …

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Louisa May Alcott, author of Hospital Sketches and Little Women served as a nurse at the Union Hospital in Washington D.C. beginning in December 1862. By January …

Freedmen’s Hospital/Howard University Hospital (1862

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The Freedmen’s Hospital was founded in 1862 in Washington, D.C. It was the first hospital of its kind to aid in the medical treatment of former slaves. Later it became the major hospital for the …

30 Strange Old-Timey Medical Treatments | Mental Floss

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Radium was once considered a legitimate medical treatment. The ailments it supposedly cured included arthritis, impotence, and aging. The Revigator, an early 20th …

Medicine in the Middle Ages | The British Library

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Medicine in the Middle Ages. Dr Alixe Bovey investigates the influence of astrology, religion and magic on medical knowledge and practice. Most medieval ideas about medicine were based on those of …

Health Care and the American Medical Profession, 1830 …

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By the 1850s the elite of American medicine pressed for stricter standards, the regulation of medical practice, and the reform of medical school curricula along more scientific lines. Many of these elite …

5 of the Most Painful Medical Treatments of the Middle …

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In the early days of the Middle Ages, operating surgeons used a painful process they called “Needling” to perform cataract surgery. A thick flat needle is used, which a doctor would actually push directly …

7 of the Most Outrageous Medical Treatments in History

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News of this discovery spread, and soon cocaine was being used in both eye and sinus surgeries. Marketed as a treatment for toothaches, depression, sinusitis, lethargy, alcoholism, and impotence,...