castings and medication administration round out the daily work of a Civil War surgeon. The rivalry between the doctors, Byron Hale and Jedediah Foster, dramatically portrays the conflict of ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast ... In 1863, Stonewall Jackson’s surgeon recommended the removal of his left arm, which had ...

Surgeon General Joseph Barnes (Hammond’s ... most wartime physicians did embrace the use of anesthetics during the Civil War. Indeed, the sources overwhelming show that by the war’s end ...

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 Lyda Poynter wrote an unpublished book about Dr.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 ...