Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science by Shauna Devine

Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science

Shauna Devine

372 pages 2014

2 editions

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared. In the years before the war, training for physicians in the United...

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