These better trained physicians often headed medical schools, and in the Civil War were in the Sanitary Commission and Surgeon General’s office. Most doctors practicing medicine did not have the ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast, and many of their MacGyver-like solutions have had a lasting impact. Here are five medical advances and the people behind them. The old battlefield technique of ...

These better trained physicians often headed medical schools, and in the Civil War were in the Sanitary Commission and Surgeon General’s office. Most doctors practicing medicine did not have the ...