The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is honored to announce a significant new donation of rare and historically ...
The staff of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick regularly tells visitors of the war's many medical advancements. On Saturday, a guest lecturer explained that the knowledge gained ...
Today, the most interesting reminder of Daniel Sickles, a 19th-century Army general, might be his amputated leg bone, a cast of which is currently on loan at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine ...
A ward in Carver Hospital in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. One key innovation during this period was the division of hospitals into wards based on disease. U.S. National Archives In 1862, ...
The Civil War might seem to today's physicians like a quaint anachronism, irrelevant to modern concerns, a blurred panorama of drunken surgeons wiping their scalpels on blood-soaked aprons and ...