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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The mosciiiito-nettings wliic-li covered the couches ofthe sick ami wounded liave heen draped ahove theirheads to give them air and preparatory to the surgeonsvisit. The time is evidently smnmer. In the vignettebelow, the white cloud has descended, and all is quietsave for the one patient seen crawling into his couch. Al-though the transmission of disease by mosquitoes hadyet to be demonstrated, these soldiers were thoroughlyinsured. Against self-infection, however, they couldnot lie protectetl. The nuniljer of surgical operationsnecessary on the quarter of a million men wounded onthe Union side during the war does not ai)))ear, but astheir wounds were practically all infected, with result-ing pus-formation, secondary hemorrhage, necrosis ofbone, and sloughing of tissue, it must be accepted as 12941
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EVie* OF REVIEWS CO. very great. During the first eighteen months of tiie war, reports of surgical operations performed were notmade liy the surgeons, and no record exists of their nature and number. But such reports for the remainderof the war were very complete. They show, of ordinary accidents such as might occur in civil life, includingburns and scalds, contusions, sprains, dislocations, fractures, incised and punctured wounds (not made byweapons of war), and poisoning, a total of 171,565 cases, with 3,025 deaths. Early in ISCS, the aggressivemovement of troops vacated a large number of rough barracks which they had previously occupied. Ad-vantage was taken to fit them up hastily as hospitals to receive the sick removed from the troops thus takingthe field. Generally speaking, none were wholly satisfactory for their new purpose, either from site,sanitary condition, arrangement, or construction. Nor were even water supply and sewage facilities alwayssuitable. Toward the close of th

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