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How Did The Medical Field Impact The Civil War

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The research topic I am proposing, how did the medical field impact the civil war, compared to hundreds of years later and how would the advancements later would affect the war? I will address the different aspects of the medicine as it relates to the war and how medicine technological advancements would impact the war. Important topics that contribute to the research are the alternative medicine that were implemented during the time. How did it affect the care providers and soldiers at the time? Also the common diseases that plagued the people, not only that but they types of bacteria they were exposed to. I am going to further address the antiseptic methods if any was implemented at all. Additionally a brief history behind the individuals who developed these techniques and their contribution to the medicine during the civil war. …show more content…

If they could have men tried and sent back to war without additional expose of infections then could this perhaps make the war continued for a longer period because there would have been more soldiers to battle on the field. They would not suffer from the common diseases that most of them died from and the infections. The advancements could ultimately cause catastrophe or simply help soldiers prevent amputation from common infections. Books addressing the topic In Hospital and Camp : The Civil War Through the Eyes of Its Doctors and Nurses’, Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science (Civil War America), Letters of a civil war surgeon and The encyclopedia of civil war medicine (for reference purposes)

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