Medicines Used
What was the medicine Quinine used for during the Civil War?
Yellow Fever
A soldier cant sleep at all because of his anxiety and pain and needs rest in order to heal. What medicine would you suggest he takes?
Chloral Hydrate
How many soldiers were recommended per bath use?
26 soldiers.
Dogwood, willow, and tulip tree were substituted for a medicine called...
Quinine
Laudanum was historically used to treat a variety of conditions, but its principal use was as an...
Pain medication and cough suppressant.
This patient has symptoms consisting of an infection in the intestines that causes diarrhea containing blood or mucus.
Dysentery
Were soldiers supposed to shower?
A- once a week
B- every day
C- every other day
A- Once a week
What was ginger used for?
Nausea
True or False, Opium pills, morphine injections, and laudanum were some of the Civil War's most widely used medicines.
True
The patient has a bullet in his left calf that is causing an infection in the area. What would the cure be?
Amputation
Many diseases are spreading and forming what is the cause of this?
Lack of sanitation and hygiene.
Was white oak used for arthritis or digestion track issues?
Both!
How many years before the civil war did they use Anesthesia
15 years before the Civil War!
A patient came in and was in a ton of pain from a bullet to the abdomen would you give them Quinine or Chloral Hydrate
Chloral Hydrate
Lice is a bug that spreads throughout peoples hair, is it caused from lack of hygiene or from the bugs crawling in the woods?
Lack of hygiene.
Milk thistle was used for heart conditions. True or False?
False, it was used for liver conditions