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Medicine and hospitals
There was many different kinds of hospitals that were use in the civil war time.There were field and general and hospital trains. Field hospitals were base close to the battlefield. Field Hospitals were unsanitary. They would use two barrels with a door laying straight across the two barrels as a operation table. General hospitals were more sanitary than the field hospitals. General hospitals were generally were farther away from the battle field. There were hospital trains. The hospital trains were used to move troops and supplies to the army. The hospital trains were also used to transport sick and wounded men to general hospitals. There were hospital ships that were used to evacuate the sick and wounded. The biggest and best ships were made into floating hospitals. These ships had 100s of rooms with hospital beds organized into wards. Also in the hospital ships they had operating rooms, laundry rooms, and steam-powered fans used to give air to different decks. They had elevators for moving patients. These ships saved many people and made much suffering wherever they sailed.

There were many people that worked in the hospitals as nurses and surgeons like Dorothea Dix,Susie bucker king Taylor, Cortlandt van rensselaer creed, Walt Whitman, and many more. A nurse by the name of Clara Barton found herself close to the front line careing for the injured. Clara Barton was the founder of the red cross. Army nurses worked as hard as the soldiers did during the battles. Nurses had limited medical training. civil war surgeons and doctors learned to treat wide variety of injuries by testing different techniques. Technologies like sedatives, hypodermic syringes, and stethoscopes were used alot during the war. The first female surgeon went by the name Mary Edwards Walker. She graduated for syrocuse medical college in 1855.

Medicines from the civil war were things like Chloroform. Chloroform was discovered by samuel guthie an American physician. Chloroform was made be mixing chlorinated lime and whiskey. It was known to the locals as "Guthies sweet whiskey". It was used to numb the central system. Chloroform was also known as Methyl Trichloride. Medical profesionals, solders, and civilians were educated proform medical help.In the last year of the war in 1865 204 union general hospitals with beds for 136894 pateints. General hospitals were wood-built, clean, and had more than enough ventilation. They had enough beds for 80-100 patients.

Out of the 600,000 men who died in the civil war, more than 60% died from diseases. Antibiotics and diseases were not yet understood. Field hospitals were unsanitary. One surgeon General P. More and William A. Hammond established labs to test and make drugs and medicines. Many diverse hospitals were established through the years and volunteers were needed. In 1863 Dr. Esther Hill Hawks volunteers in the first army hospital for African American solders

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