Medicine+and+Hospitals

=Medicine and Hospitals =

**//__Injuries and Treatments__//** ~ **// Calomel- is //**  a medicine whose main ingredient was mercury, it depleted the vital body fluids and if too much was put into a person it could give them mercury poisoning ~  **//Opium-//**  was also used as a common painkiller ~ **//Quinine- //**  it was a drug that could prevent and treat malaria ~ **//Chloroform-//**  was used as anesthetic

People believed in the ancient practice of bleeding a person. People who were healthy enough to go into combat, a wound often meant a loss of a limb or death. most Soldiers with head or gut wounds were often left to die, but for arm and leg wounds amputation was often the treatment to prevent infection. Confederate soldiers were less fortunate because all they had was a bottle of whiskey and a lead bullet to bite. Civil war commanders often tried to cover up any injuries or illness that might get them kicked out of the war. The greatest killer was dysentery or most known as diarrhea.



// __Surgeons__ // Advanced weaponry meant that an arm bone or a leg bone could easily be shattered from a distance of hundreds of yards. The physicians had been well trained in the medicals schools they choose to go to. The education they got rarely included the information on how to treat battlefield injuries and they weren’t immune to the dangers of the battlefield. “I recall standing on the front of our boat.... I saw a puff of smoke afar off, and, and in a few seconds a huge projectile flew past us, and far above our heads.” Cortlandt van Renssselaer Creed was the first the first black person to graduate and receive a medical degree.



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__**Field Hospitals **__
<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The field hospitals were terrible places. When you would walk in you would probly see torn, bloated, and lifeless bodys. The field hospitals were a place where wounded people would go to get treatment. Most of the field hospitals were very unsanitary, and were crowded. Most often the criticaly wounded were the first to get treated, the others were put aside until later and were sometimes left to die. The field hospitals were mostly tents with 10 to 12 tables in them. The nurses and surgons would usially walk around and take care of the soldiers with bood, and pus stains on there shirts and pants. The field hospitals had many dangers, they had lots of bacteria causing infections and they did not sterlize most of their instruments, they only washed their tools in tap water, and if a instrument fell on the floor they would just wipe it off. Thats what most of the field hospitals looked like.