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Richmond's Wartime Hospitals
By Keyser, Tim
Hardcover
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By Keyser, Tim
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This history of Civil War medical practice examines the harrowing circumstances faced by doctors and hospitals in Virginia’s capitol.
The Civil War erupted toward the end of a period known as “the medical Middle Ages,” before modern knowledge of bacteria and antiseptics. Doctors of the time, who were considered fully trained after only two-years of study, had few diagnostic tools beyond their own reckoning at hand.
While medical science saw significant advances during the Civil War, hospit...