While the race for a Covid-19 vaccine continues, scientists are learning more about the early vaccines used to fight smallpox, the only human infectious disease to be successfully eradicated.

Surgical kit made for the Union Army during the Civil War by George Tiemann & Company of New York City. Courtesy of National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center ...

Civil War-Era Vaccination Kits Yield New Clues About History of ... Medicine and vaccine development are very different today than they were in the 19th century—but it’s evidence that ...

At Tuesday night’s A Grisly Business: Civil War Field Medicine at the Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm, Dr. Bob Nottingham, right, demonstrates how doctors would use a tourniquet during an ...

Stories that personalize the war this way — for soldiers and doctors alike — accompany many of the 3,000 medical tools, devices, kits, packages, medicines, accouterments, and rare documents ...

“Kits found in collections relating to the American Civil War correspond to a time of known medical crisis and intervention to prevent smallpox outbreaks,” the investigators noted.

Civil War medicine, up close +8. ... He shows us such artifacts as amputation kits, the mummified arm, photos of terribly wounded soldiers, descriptions of how an organized hospital system ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The Massie Heritage Center has a new exhibit on display this month focusing on Civil War medicine in Savannah. ... “But he wanted his legacy of historic medical interpretation ...

In December 1864, an Irish immigrant in the 12th New York Cavalry suffered a gunshot wound in his shoulder. And, despite the high risk of infection in an era before antibiotics, he lived until 1914.

Most people associate Civil War medicine with amputations and saws. There were a lot of amputations performed when bones in the arms or legs were shattered, and in most cases it was the best ...

Lt. Col. David Bowerman, U.S. Army Public Health Command chaplain, organized a trip to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and the Monocacy Battlefield in Frederick, Maryland for the command ...