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Article: Medicine in the Civil War: Museum's focus on care makes it unusual.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- June 13, 1996
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FREDERICK, Md. - The Civil War took the lives of more than 600,000 Americans and injured countless others. It also produced important medical innovations and advances often forgotten and unacknowledged in history books. The National Museum of Civil War Medicine intends to tell the rest of the story.
Opening on Saturday, the museum will begin to dispell movie myths about the Civil War and show the medical ventures that actually took place.
"People think Civil War medicine was primitive, but it wasn't," says Burt Kummerow, the museum's executive director. Now, "130 years later, people still don't realize that medicine was changed forever."
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