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 has grown very happy with telling its story about the development of modern medicine from the perspective of Jonathan Letterman, a Union Army ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The staff of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick regularly tells visitors of the war's many medical ...

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, ...

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Explore Frederick's important role in the history of medicine. Frederick, Maryland, played a vital role during the Civil War, serving as a key medical hub for wounded soldiers from the battles of ...

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 ...

The bloodiest war in American history was also one of the most influential in battlefield medicine. Civil War surgeons learned fast, and many of their MacGyver-like solutions have had a lasting impact ...