Medical Revolutions

Title: Medical Revolutions
Category: Science & Technology | Words: 1011 | Pages: 4.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

Medical Revolutions

The Civil War started as a picnic and ended in compassion, but in between were four hideous years of twisted flesh, burning fevers, rampant pus, and oozing raw stumps. Never before had America faced even a hint of such agony and the way it responded to the occasion is fascinating history. In a very real sense the War Between the States brought forth a medical revolution and, perhaps above all, an awareness of public health. …showed first 75 words of 1011 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1011 total…of “pure medicine,” not much appears at the first glance, but the respectable number of developments, revelations, and the like, come intro focus upon close inspection. Certainly experience was gained in handling the knife and the saw, and many surgeons were becoming less squeamish in entering the body. Many more advancements were also realized during the wartime medical era. Though the lesson of war is never worth the fee, history shows that we did learn.

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