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Article: Wartime physicians faced new challenges.(National Museum of Civil War Medicine )
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- Civil War Times
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CIVIL WAR MEDICINE, FREDERICK, MD.
The critical role of medicine in the Civil War has garnered increasing interest in recent years. The conflict's staggering casualty count brought into focus the treatment of the sick and wounded at a time when military medicine and medical care were entering a period of rapid development and change, and a handful of museums are now specifically devoted to this aspect of the war.
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The National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Md., began with the collection of Gordon E. Damman, D.D.S., the museum's founder and the co-author, with Dr. Alfred J. Bollet, of the book ...