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Civil War Medicine

This guide is focused on the topic of medicine during the civil war and a past National Library of Medicine display at the library.

Civil War Pharmacy

"Medical Department" Column #4 - "Medicine Men"
ArchiTreats: Food for Thought - Civil War Pharmacy
Alabama Department of Archives and History online video
“The Popular Dose with Doctors”: Quinine and the American Civil War: During the American Civil War the North and South developed different strategies to treat malaria.
By Robert D. Hicks
Distillations magazine - Chemical Heritage Foundation
Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection
Smithsonian National Museum of American History Kenneth E. Behring Center

Civil War Hospitals

Infectious Disease

The Impact of Disease on the Civil War
Yale National Initiative to improve teaching in the public schools.
The Major Infectious Epidemic Diseases of Civil War Soldiers
Bollet A. 2004. The major infectious epidemic diseases of Civil War soldiers. Infect Dis Clin North Am 18(2):293-309, table of contents. PubMed abstract

Other National Library of Medicine Online Exhibitions

Interactive Map

Civil War Washington Interactive Map

The map provided by CWDC give you the location of various places found in Washington D.C. during the American Civil War.

Civil War Medicine Websites

American Experience: Death and the Civil War
PBS
Civil War-Era Hospitals
PBS: Essay by Stanley B. Burns, M.D. of The Burns Archive.
Civil War Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University Library Libguide
Civil War Medicine
Civil War Trust
Civil War Medicine Curriculum
Civil War Trust
Civil War Medicine Quiz
PBS
Civil War Medicine – In 4 Minutes video
Civil War Trust
Civil War Washington.
Clara Barton
Civil War Trust
Directory of American Civil War Medicine Collections
Healing the Nation: Stories from the Civil War
The National Library of Medicine
List of Civil War Medicine Resources
Medicine - Then & Now
Pennsylvania Civil War 150
Medicine in the American Civil War
Mercy Street’s Mansion House Hospital
National Library of Medicine's Circulating Now Blog
Myths and Realities: A Close Up on Civil War Medicine
PBS: Interview with Jake Wynn, Educational Programming Coordinator – National Museum of Civil War Medicine
NARA Records with Civil War Medical Information
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
The New York Public Library Digital Collectiion - Civil War
Obstacles and Opportunities: African Americans' Medical Work in the American Civil War
Origins of the National Institutes of Health: The Civil War and Its Aftermath
PBS: Uncover the History
The history behind the PBS Mercy Street
The Society of Civil War Surgeons
Surgery in the Civil War
PBS: Essay by Stanley B. Burns, M.D. of The Burns Archive.

Civil War Physicians

African American Physicians and Organized Medicine, 1846-1968
American Medical Association

Videos

Videos by the National Museum of Civil War Medicine

Civil War Nursing

"So Much Need of Service" The Diary of a Civil War Nurse
Amanda Akin's Washington, D.C.: The Capital During the Civil War, 1861-1865
National Museum of American History. Information about a Civil War nurse.
Antietam: Aspects of Medicine, Nursing and the Civil War.
Tooker J. Antietam: aspects of medicine, nursing and the civil war. Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc. 2007;118:215-23.
Civil War Nurses - The Forgotten Heroes of the Great Rebellion
Nurse from Portage County
Clara Barton
Civil War Trust
Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office
Clara Barton, 1821-1912, Civil War Nurse, Founder of the American Red Cross
The Diary of a Civil War Nurse
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Dorothea Dix (1802–1887)
Parry MS. Dorothea Dix (1802–1887). Am J Public Health. 2006;96(4):624-625.
Georgeanna Woolsey : A Day in the Life of a Northern Nurse
Civil War Trust
Nursing in the Civil War
PBS: Essay by Stanley B. Burns, M.D. of The Burns Archive.

150th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam - Sept. 17, 2012

150th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam
National Park Service
Antietam: Aspects of Medicine, Nursing and the Civil War.
Tooker J. Antietam: aspects of medicine, nursing and the civil war. Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc. 2007;118:215-23.
Antietam Casualties of Battle
Antietam Historic Photographs by Alexander Gardner
Clara Barton at Antietam
Clara Barton Monument

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