Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Workhorses of the War: The Many Roles of Hospital Stewards During the Civil War

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- Frances Bengtson During the American Civil War, the United States faced a scale of casualties and disease that challenged medical infrastr...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

The Post-War Legacy of Civil War Dentistry

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- Kavn Aulakh The Civil War is often remembered for its devastating battles and medical crises. However, one greatly overlooked aspect of a ...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

The Dawn of Anesthesia in the Civil War

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- Leila “Izzy” Jones By the time the American Civil War began, two anesthetic agents had been developed and were already in routine use in A...

The Birth of Modern Medicine: Causalgia and Hospital Gangrene in the Civil War

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- Cristen Huynh The American Civil War was a period of immense military and social upheaval, but it also served as an unexpected catalyst fo...

Pathological Draft Resistance in the Civil War: Self-Inflicted Medical Exemptions

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- Mitch Ford During the Civil War, desperation to avoid military service drove some draftees to extreme lengths. One example was the self-ex...

Recognizing Invisible Pain in the Civil War

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- Akayi Thein The Civil War, as one of the deadliest wars in American History, resulted in unprecedented casualties at an immense scale. The...

Orthopedic Surgery in the Civil War and Present Day

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- Joshua Longmire The Civil War led to numerous advancements in the field of orthopedics. Through extensive trial and error, and with limite...

Medical Education in the Post-Civil War South

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- Ashley Isenberg The Civil War not only transformed the political and social landscape of the United States but also fundamentally reshaped...

Anatomical Study Prior to the Civil War

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- Jonathan Gagnon In 1857, T.R. Roberts, medical student at the University of Virginia, pleaded to the governor of his state that “studying ...

Antiseptic and Hygienic Practices During the Civil War

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 - Jonathan Yu The Civil War is considered to be one of the deadliest conflicts in American History (Digital History, n.d.). A significant r...