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History That Doesn't Suck — 63: Wounded and Dying: Nurses, Doctors, and Disease in the Civil War
Scout ratingSCOUT· 67%56m·2020-04-27·History

63: Wounded and Dying: Nurses, Doctors, and Disease in the Civil War

History That Doesn't Suck

“I had never severed the nerves and fibers of human flesh.” This is the story of Civil War medicine. At the start of the war, the wounded sometimes lay on the field of battle for days hoping for help. Some die slowly and painfully from exposure and thirst. Others are robbed as their life expires. The divided nation…

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