Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are not exempt from Defense Department's ...

In retrospect, the surgeons in the Civil War did an outstanding job. As a result of the war, America gained hundreds of competent surgeons who would lay the foundations of modern surgical specialties.

Civil War surgeons learned fast, and many of their MacGyver-like solutions have had a lasting impact. Here are five medical advances and the people behind them. The old battlefield technique of ...

Surgeons (ranking of major ... Did doctors amputate too readily during the Civil War? Foster immediately diagnoses gangrene—what did this mean for Ezra? Hospital gangrene was most prevalent ...

About the documents: Mrs. Lyda Poynter wrote an unpublished book about Dr. Mary Walker. Many of the documents we have on Dr. Mary were collected by her. The book was finished in 1946, but remains ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact. With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname ...

The Union's armed forces engaged some 12,000 surgeons during the Civil War. Of these, just fourteen were men of color. In this truly ground-breaking study, Newmark, independent historian and former ...

Bell justly spends a good amount of time on quinine, "the most potent weapon Civil War surgeons had in their fight against malaria." Derived from the bark of the South American cinchona tree, the ...