Amanda's+Civil+War+Diseases

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When American Decided To Kill American....
Did the diseases of the Civil War effect the North and South and how did these two handle it??

Union 13,000 South 4,000 June 9th,1865 -- Number of Doctors

Union had 3 out of 5 people killed by disease and for the South 2 out of 3-- More people died of disease rather then bullet

43 people died becuase the Anesthesia

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"One witness described a common surgeon's tent this way: "Tables about breast high had been erected upon which the screaming victims were having legs and arms cut off. The surgeons and their assistants, stripped to the waist and bespattered with blood, stood around, some holding the poor fellows while others, armed with long, bloody knives and saws, cut and sawed away with frightful rapidity, throwing the mangled limbs on a pile nearby as soon as removed." "

From Doctor "It was a cheerless view looking out in the night through the driving storm over the mass of soldiers hovering under their blankets. Such nights are the devastation of armies. They will lose us more men than a battle."

"The medicines brought in to try and halt diseases were manufactured in the north for the most part; the southerners had to deal with running the Union blockade. On occasion, vital medicines were smuggled into the South, sewn into the petticoats of ladies sympathetic to the Southern cause. The South also had some manufacturing capabilities and worked with herbal remedies. However, many of the Southern medical supplies came from captured Union stores. Dr. Hunter McGuire, the medical director of Jackson's corps, commented after the War on the safeness of anesthesia, saying that in part the Confederacy's good record was due in part from the supplies requisitioned from the North."

"To halt disease, doctors used many cures. For bowel complaints, open bowels were treated with a plug of opium. Closed bowels were treated with the infamous "blue mass"... a mixture of mercury and chalk. For scurvy, doctors prescribed green vegetables. Respiratory problems, such as pneumonia and bronchitis were treated with dosing of opium or sometimes quinine and muster plasters. Sometimes bleeding was also used. Malaria could be treated with quinine, or sometimes even turpentine if quinine was not available. Camp itch could be treated by ridding the body of the pests or with poke-root solution. Whiskey and other forms of alcohol also were used to treat wounds and disease ... though questionable for its medical validity, whiskey did relieve some pain."

"It was not uncommon for a Civil War infantry regiment to lose between 25% to 50% of its strength to disease and infirmity before it ever left camp, let alone faced enemy fire."

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