Medicine in the Civil War

Medicine In The Civil War
Those medical professionals who look back now at the techniques of Civil War doctors and hospitals are often found to be appalled. In our current eyes, medical professionals were untrained, uneducated, and frankly, stupid. The common medicines of the Civil War are now viewed by medical professionals as poisonous, lethal, and definitely dangerous. It is a statistical fact that more soldiers in the Civil War died from diarrhea than from battle wounds and injuries. Those deaths from diarrhea are known not to have usually been caused by the disease itself, but by…