Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 973.775 EAN: 9780807118566 ISBN:0807118567 Label: Louisiana State University Press Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 339 Publication Date: 1993-04 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Studio: Louisiana State University Press
Rating: - A Study of the Confederate Medical Service
Although books on the military and political aspects of the Civil War abound there are surprisingly few books devoted to the study of Civil War medical care. There are fewer books still that examine in detail medical care within the Confederacy. H.H. Cunningham's "Doctors in Gray" first was published in 1958 and remains an excellent study of the Confederate medical service. The book begins with an examination of the specific medical problems the Confederacy faced in 1861 which intensified as ... Read More
Rating: - Insight into the Confederacy
Cunningham has created here a comprehensive history of the medical services of the Confederate states in the Civil War era. Cunningham explains in great detail many afflictions and circumstances that befell Confederate soldiers that ultimately resulted in medical treatment by a Confederate doctor. Ironically, he finds that the majority of the 200,00 soldiers who died during the Civil War had died due to illness or battle wounds which is indicative of a burgeoning and developing medical system that ... Read More
- A Study of the Confederate Medical Service
- Insight into the Confederacy
