the Civil War did bring about improvements in medicine. The first ambulance systems in the United States grew out of the need to transport people from the battlefield to field hospitals during the ...

"Hospitals became places of healing rather than places to go to die, as they were widely considered before the war," according to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. "The large-scale ...

surgeons and hospital staff during the war. According to the National Library of Medicine, for African-Americans, the Civil War was “a fight for freedom and a chance for full participation in Am ...

Richmond needed hospitals, lots of hospitals ... executive director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Md. New recruits didn't follow Army regulations in setting up ...

Buried in an unmarked grave for decades, one of Porter County’s most remarkable Civil War casualties is finally getting her ...

Reenactors shared information about Civil War medicine, Army life and more during the Civil War Living History Days event at ...

During Syria’s deadly civil war ... underground field hospital known as the Cave in her hometown of Eastern Ghouta, near the Syrian capital Damascus. There, she witnessed war crimes including ...

Bloomfield Hills internal medicine physician Amjad Rass was ... They say medical education there stagnated during the civil war. Visiting a hospital in Damascus in December after the overthrow ...