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This study delivers its message a hundred times: the American Civil War involved suffering. The degree of suffering overwhelmed all military glory. The exhilaration of battle dissipated under the load of fever, diarrhea, maggots, blood, dysentery, pain, pus, and putrefaction. It is the story of imperfect human beings, struggling to save lives and support their armies, fighting the enemy, fighting their superiors, and fighting against strange afflictions that defied their understanding.
The book offers the hypothesis that Northern medicine was superior to Southern, that medical care made a difference in the outcome of some battles and campaigns, and that the Northern military medical system played a role in the ultimate Northern victory. If this book fulfills its mission, the reader will see the same gore and smell the same putrefaction as did the doctors in blue and gray.
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History of Medicine, 19th Cent, Medicine, Military, Military Medicine, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Medical care, History, War, Medicine, military, history, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, medical care, Warfare, History, 19th CenturyPlaces
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Gangrene and glory: medical care during the American Civil War
2001, University of Illinois Press
in English
0252070100 9780252070105
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Gangrene and glory: medical care during the American Civil War
1998, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Associated University Presses
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0838637531 9780838637531
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and indexes..
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I am the author of this book. It is meant to give the reader the experience of living in the Civil War era. You are a doctor mystified by malaria and yellow fever (the last chapter tells you that these disorders are carried from person to person by a mosquito). You are a soldier wounded on the field at Gettysburg. What happens to you? The book has a lot of pictures, maybe too many, and some "readers" start thumbing through the book and miss the experience. You think the charge at the Angle was glorious. Glory. Wait a few weeks until your wound has become gangrenous. The smell drives everybody away, but you cannot get away from your own leg. Your leg will kill you unless someone cuts it off. Then your stump gets gangrene. Glory fades.
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