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Historical Article
Wounded by bayonet, ball, and bacteria: medicine and neurosurgery in the American Civil War.
- R T Zellem.
- Neurosurgery. 1985 Nov 1; 17 (5): 850-60.
AbstractThe American Civil War was a holocaust that illustrated the mid-19th century's unpreparedness for the delivery of medical care to the mass casualties due to both wounds and disease. Several major considerations are offered to explain the soldiers' morbidity. Incomplete understanding of pathophysiology and its management is exemplified by the treatment of the battlefield head injury. Accepting these concepts and the extent of the knowledge of the time, that higher mortality did not occur is in part testimony to the admirable care that was rendered and human resilience in an effort to survive.
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