Medical Care During The Civil War

Despite its barbaric reputation, medical care during the Civil War helped dawn a new era of modern medicine. Under Letterman’s encouragement of triage organization that is still used today, techniques developed in response to sick and wounded soldiers led to advances in pain management and directly influenced the modern ambulance and trauma system. Union surgeon general, William A. Hammond, standardized, organized and designed new hospital layouts for the army that are still used today. Sanitation in hospitals and in the medical practice overall has changed greatly thanks to the adaptation of Germ Theory, which was popularized in many ways by the disease and treatment of ill soldiers during Civil War. *add info about each medical innovation (amputation, inhaler, chest wounds, facial reconstruction, prosthetics, hospital architecture, pharmacy) also add some sources from POA cuz we used the notes*

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The Germ Theory was proposed, developed, and proved in the mid 1800s, at about the time of the Civil War. At first, not all doctors and scientists believed in the Germ Theory when they first were introduced to the idea, but shortly after the Civil War, due to the amount of infection during the war and the exploration of it the came after, they were convinced that many diseases are caused by the presence and actions of microorganisms inside the body of people. This proposition revolutionized the medical field because it made people aware that germs cause diseases, how germs related to home hygiene such as cooking, plumbing, and heating, and how germs were spread from one person to