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Chargement... Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War (1952)par George Worthington Adams
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In the first few chapters of this book is a sad story of mismanagement at the start of the Civil War brought about by the lack of an effective system of finding the wounded on the battlefield and of a hospital system whereby they could be properly cared for. The military personnel for the north that gathered in the wounded at first were simply volunteers from various units of the army, almost wholly untrained in medical work. Many of the physicians at this time were volunteers from civil life who came and went more or less at their own convenience. Civilian teamsters, hired to drive ambulances, ran away or broke into the liquor supplies and behaved abominably, refusing to give water to the wounded, refusing to put the wounded in ambulances, and in some cases even going through the pockets of their helpless passengers. From this "frightful state of disorder" ....
Similar in scope to H. H. Cunningham's Doctors in Gray, George Worthington Adams' Doctors in Blue, originally published more than forty years ago and now available for the first time in a paperback edition, remains the definitive work on the medical history of the Union army. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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