these research questions were explored by elite physicians during the Civil War. While the cause of anesthetic death in the 1860s was not understood, we now know that when administered ...

At the time of the Civil War, as a result of lax laws ... performed a major operation or even participated in a dissection. Surgery was usually performed by physicians trained at the few major ...

The use of the anesthetic agents ether and chloroform was first described in the 1840s by American physicians Crawford Long, William Morton, William Edward Clarke and James Simpson, but anesthesia was ...

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Scroll down for video Amputations were undertaken quickly, without anesthetic ... The Civil War occurred at a time when the importance of sterilization in surgery was not as well known as ...

and scattered artifacts uncovered from a shallow pit at Virginia’s Manassas National Battlefield Park are unearthing rare and grim glimpses of Civil War surgery. The surgeon’s burial pit is ...

"A Veteran Surgeon's View of the Civil War,” a program featuring Dr. David Harris, is set for 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the center, located at 11th Street and ...

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