The Civil War might seem to today's physicians like a quaint anachronism, irrelevant to modern concerns, a blurred panorama of drunken surgeons wiping their scalpels on blood-soaked aprons and ...

Editor's Note: Dr. Shauna Devine is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...

A ward in Carver Hospital in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. One key innovation during this period was the division of hospitals into wards based on disease. U.S. National Archives In 1862, ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is highlighting some cringe-inducing practices at its annual conference in Frederick. The event begins Friday and runs through Sunday.

According to Dr. Yusuf Saleeby, The Civil War was considered a dark time in medicine. Saleeby, director of Priority Health of South Carolina in Murrells Inlet, spoke on the time period of 1861 to 1865 ...

July 1 marked 150 years since the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg, a crucial victory for the Union and a turning point in the Civil War. But it came at an enormous cost to both sides — thousands ...

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine will host its annual Civil War Medicine Living Historians Workshop on March 14. The workshop is an all-day symposium featuring some of the skills, knowledge ...

My grandfather told me that when he was a boy, he would steal glances at a Civil War veteran sitting in church every Sunday. The man had a gaping hole in his forehead, a gruesome reminder of the ...

‘Civil war’ in medical community on how to treat chronic pain leaves some patients terrified ‘beyond description’ The opioid epidemic that is sweeping the nation claimed a record 27,000 lives in 2014, ...

Gaza’s doctors are frequently working in conditions not seen since before the Civil War. (L) Palestinian doctors work on a patient following the Israeli attack on Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Gaza on ...