Did doctors amputate too readily during the Civil War? Foster immediately diagnoses gangrene—what did this mean for Ezra? Hospital gangrene was most prevalent in general hospitals, and once it ...

Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment of an effective hospital system that threaded the wounded and diseased through a ...

Hundreds of Civil War relics were unearthed during the cleanup ... Also discovered was a wheel experts believe belonged to a wagon that blew up during the two days of supply dumps.

A building that local historians said was once used as a Civil War hospital is set to be demolished after a partial collapse earlier this week. A wall of the 612 Dunbar Drive structure collapsed ...

But the Civil War would change the social ... “At the beginning of the war, a ‘nurse’ meant a soldier recovering in hospital from a wound or injury, untrained in healing, who aided doctors ...

the Civil War stronghold that is now a key attraction at Dry Tortugas National Park. The small island is long gone. Barely more than a patch of sand, it eroded away from hurricanes and rising seas.

The hospital was established in 1862 to treat the wounded during the Civil War, and it was sorely needed because just one month after opening there were more than 12,000 casualties at ...