Editor's Note: Dr. Shauna Devine is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...

My grandfather told me that when he was a boy, he would steal glances at a Civil War veteran sitting in church every Sunday. The man had a gaping hole in his forehead, a gruesome reminder of the ...

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine will host its annual Civil War Medicine Living Historians Workshop on March 14. The workshop is an all-day symposium featuring some of the skills, knowledge ...

The scene begins with Dr. Hale attempting to perform a blood transfusion—a seemingly complicated procedure and one that is generally associated with modern laboratory medicine. It begs the ...

The Civil War might seem to today's physicians like a quaint anachronism, irrelevant to modern concerns, a blurred panorama of drunken surgeons wiping their scalpels on blood-soaked aprons and ...

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FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is highlighting some cringe-inducing practices at its annual conference in Frederick. The event begins Friday and runs through Sunday.

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In 1859, Congressman Daniel Sickles shot and killed the man sleeping with his wife. After escaping a prison sentence, Sickles ...

Gaza’s doctors are frequently working in conditions not seen since before the Civil War. (L) Palestinian doctors work on a patient following the Israeli attack on Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Gaza on ...

I want to reassure Elizabeth Plageman [Close to Home, Dec. 10] that the National Park Service has heard our citizens' call for commemoration of those who participated in the Civil War. Soon after I ...