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- Civil War Medicine
- While the Civil War, female nurses wanted to take on hospital work. They helped nursing for middle-class women become an exceptional job in the late 1800s. Both black and white women nursed sick and hurt Union and Confederate soldiers. Most of the nurses who worked in the civil war stopped after the war ended. But some women continued their profession and continued to run hospitals, train nurses, and learn medical training.
- Of course!
- I would like to become a nurse.
- Me too.
- Don't forget me.
- Me as well!
- Many wounded solider had an operation called an amputation in which you get a limb removed from your body because of a horrible injury or infected wound. There were many advanced military weapons before the war so which meant more powerful injuries, destructive weapons, and more devastating injuries. Most American doctors weren't prepared enough to treat such wounds. They only had experience in pulling teeth mostly.
- I wish they never took away your leg but you had such a bad wound.
- America was a nation focused on agriculture. Those from rural areas were exposed to deadly diseases to which they didn't have any immunity to. Crowding together in big numbers meant many diseases were being exposed to them. Diseases such as smallpox, measles, chicken pox, diphtheria, and mumps were exposed to them. Smallpox had a vaccine but still killed more than 7k of the around 19k people infected by the disease. Measles killed around 5k out of the around 76k infected by the disease.
- *HACK HACK* *COUGH COUGH*
- Bless you! Bless you!
- WHY DO I HAVE RED DOTS ON ME?!!?
- *ACHOO! ACHOO!*
- All common physical and psychiatric diseases were encountered including rheumatic diseases, typhus, and cholera. Around 30k cases of scurvy were recorded. Tens of thousands left military service with chronic intestinal and lung infections that killed them in the following 10 years.
- NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
- You tell me it was sudden but I am 100% sure that this is a lung infection from 10 years ago since you told me he was in military 10 years ago. We have have many cases like this. I'm so sorry but he is dead and we cannot do anything about it.
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