Medicine - Civil War

1. Illnesses like dysentery, typhoid fever, pneumonia, mumps, measles and tuberculosis

2. Doctors didn’t have the teachings like they do today. Many treated diseases like syphillus with mercury. This was fatal to patients.

3. As battles ended, the wounded were rushed down railroad lines to nearby cities and towns, where doctors and nurses coped with the onslaught of dying men in makeshift hospitals

4. Most of the equipment and facilities weren’t sanitized which caused infections in patients.

5. About 620,000 soldiers died during the war and 2/3 of the deaths were due to disease.

6. Field and pavilion hospitals replaced makeshift ones and efficient hospitalization systems encouraged the accumulation of medical records and reports, which slowed bad practices as accessible knowledge spread the use of beneficial treatments.