Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this blog post, Shauna Devine, Ph.D., chronicles the introduction of general inhalation anesthesia and how it transformed medical and surgical practice in the mid-19th century.

Dr. Ira Rutkow talked about how medicine and surgery changed during the Civil War. He responded to questions from members of the audience. "The Civil War: How Did It Impact Medicine in America?" ...

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.

“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.

George Wunderlich talked about medical practice during the Civil War. He said the assumption that Civil War battlefield medicine was simplistic at best is often an inaccurate portrayal. and the ...