Civil War medicine
Subtitle: challenges and triumphs
By: Alfred Jay Bollet.
Publisher: Galen Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tucson, Ariz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Health aspects
Description: Are amputations on screaming, unanesthetized men your image of Civil War medicine? If so, you are wrong! Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs shatters these enduring myths by blending first-person accounts with a modern analysis of historical data. -- Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-475) and index.