Whilst fighting in Europe during World War One, many British troops sustained injuries to their limbs. Due to the scale of medical need ... of the American Civil War (1861-1865), American ...

A great change, however, took place with the publication by the Americans of the splendid and exhaustive “Medical and Surgical History of the War of Rebellion (1861–1865),” which has ...

Editor’s Note: This essay series is written by Mercy Street's medical ... In the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, despite the lessons learned in the Civil War and the development of antiseptic surgical ...