Costly Progress: Medical Advances in the American Civil War
Event Details
Date
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Time
All day
Location
Ebling Library Historical Reading Room, Health Sciences Learning Center
Description
A guest wrote: “I am a Civil War buff & I thought I would know all this already, but I didn’t…”
While the Civil War was catastrophic in terms of lost lives and maimed individuals, its practices also had a profound effect on how military medicine, plastic surgery, prosthetics, anesthesia, emergency medicine and hygiene were performed in subsequent wars, and is practiced today.
Includes artifacts (amputation kits) as well as books and manuals from the 1860s.
While the Civil War was catastrophic in terms of lost lives and maimed individuals, its practices also had a profound effect on how military medicine, plastic surgery, prosthetics, anesthesia, emergency medicine and hygiene were performed in subsequent wars, and is practiced today.
Includes artifacts (amputation kits) as well as books and manuals from the 1860s.
Cost
Free
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