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The state of medical knowledge at the time of the Civil War was quite limited by 21st century standards. Doctors did not understand germs, and did little to prevent infection. It was a time before antiseptics, and a time when there was no attempt to maintain sterility during surgery.
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 History was divided into three parts, each ...
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]
Satterlee General Hospital was the largest Union Army hospital during the American Civil War.Operating from 1862 to 1865 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, its physicians and nurses rendered care to thousands of Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners.
Flannery, Michael A. Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy. (London: Pharmaceutical Press, 2004) Freemon, Frank R. Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care during the American Civil War. (1998) Green, Carol C. Chimborazo: The Confederacy's Largest Hospital. (2004)
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is a U.S. historic education institution located in Frederick, Maryland. Its focus involves the medical, surgical and nursing practices during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
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.
These were not the first hospital ships employed by the Civil War governments; previous ships used as hospitals, like the hospital ship CSS St. Philip (formerly the Star of the West) in September 1861 and April 1862, retained patients for long periods of time (30–90 days easily) and stayed on station rarely travelling. The Sanitary Commission ...