Important People
Only woman officer in the Confederate army who ran a highly successful hospital, challenging the stereotypes that woman could not work in wartime.
Who was Sally Louisa Tompkins?
A medicine used to treat malaria. This saved many lives.
These were the most common types of battlefield wounds that usually hit the arms and legs.
What are gunshot wounds/minié balls?
This organization was created in June 1861 to improve camp sanitation and soldier health.
What is the U.S. Sanitary Commission?
Believed by the people during the time that disease travels through the air.
What is miasma theory?
Was know as the “Angel of the Battlefield” and directly helped soldiers on the battlefield.
Who was Clara Barton?
It was the use of traditional remedies and past practices. It held healthcare back, as doctors never tested them scientifically.
What is Materia Medica?
This was a common disease to see among soldiers in the war, spread by mosquitos.
What is malaria?
A system which made it easier for wounded or sick soldiers to be taken to safety and treated.
What was the Ambulance Corps?
This was said to be the only anesthetic used by the armies.
What is whiskey?
Created the ambulance corps, and is known as the father of battlefield medicine.
Who was Dr. Jonathan Letterman?
These were used as anesthesia for surgeries.
What are chloroform and ether?
Bacteria entering inside a wound, causing an infection.
What is a wound infection?
Jonathan Letterman implemented this system for the first time, making sure urgently wounded soldiers were of utmost priority.
What is the Triage System?
The factor that killed the the most people (two-thirds of the both armies) was this and not combat.
What is disease?
Co-creator the Army Medical Museum and was Surgeon General for the Union Armya
Who was William A. Hammond?
A medicine used to treat severe pain especially after amputations.
What is morphine?
A disease where most outbreaks occurred after a ships arrival from Caribbean ports and survivors gained immunity to it.
What is Yellow Fever?
It was used to keep medical records. Doctors studied these records to work on past mistakes and find new forms of treatment for many different problems.
What is the American Medical Museum?
Many people believe these workers did unnecessary amputations on soldiers.
What are surgeons?
Creator of the smallpox vaccine 70 years before the Civil War, indirectly saving numerous lives on the battlefield.
Who was Edward Jenner?
A medicine that helped treat dysentery and diarrhea.
What is Opium?
A highly contagious disease spread quickly through crowded Civil War camps and infected 67,000 soldiers, killing 4,000 of them.
What is measles?
This type of hospital design improved airflow and reduced the spread of illness.
What is the pavilion-style hospital?
Many people believe this was not used during Civil War surgery, but it actually was in most cases.
What is anesthesia?