![]() ![]() Most of these lectures were delivered at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine, and coincidentally, were heard by the author’s great grandfather who earned the M.D. We now know a great deal about the previously little written-about subject of ante-bellum medical education because several lectures delivered to medical students in the 1850s were discovered in 2003 at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the oldest honorary medical academy in the United States, established in 1787. ![]() ![]() How and where were physicians caring for soldiers in the Civil War educated? What did Civil War physicians think caused illness? What treatments did they use and why? What hampered their efforts to treat disease? What were the medical legacies of the Civil War? These are the questions we need to address if we are to understand Civil War medicine. ![]()
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