As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, WTOP presents “250 Years of America,” a multipart series examining the innovations, breakthroughs and pivotal moments that have shaped the nation ...
The Civil War might seem to today's physicians like a quaint anachronism, irrelevant to modern concerns, a blurred panorama of drunken surgeons wiping their scalpels on blood-soaked aprons and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olga Kononenko, Unsplash During the American Civil War, medical treatment was fast, bloody, and brutal compared to modern ...