Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War

by Frank R. Freemon

Book Overview

This unusual history of the Civil War takes a close look at the battlefield doctors in whose hands rested the lives of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and at the makeshift medicine they were forced to employ.

A medical doctor and a credentialed historian, Frank R. Freemon combines poignant, sometimes horrifying anecdotes of amputation, infection, and death with a clearheaded discussion of the state of medical knowledge, the effect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252070100
• ISBN13: 9780252070105
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 11.0"