Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War began in 1861. The sheer number of casualties gave surgeons on both sides the opportunity to gain experience with the first two anesthetic ...
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 ...
Tomorrow, Monday, is National Doctors’ Day. It was established to commemorate the first great American contribution to medicine, but it also marks a tragic and deadly feud among four men who fought ...
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