Veterinary medicine and the American Civil War.

American Self-Identification: A Strategy of Maintenance

Changes in the distribution of Navy and Marine Corps casualties from World War I through the Vietnam conflict.

Hunter Holmes McGuire: much more than Stonewall Jackson's surgeon.

Hunter Holmes McGuire, MD is best recognized as the friend and personal physician of the famous Civil War general, Stonewall Jackson. Two major biographies written about Dr McGuire discuss his life, devoting 40% to 75% of their length to the Civil War.1,2 However, Dr Stuart McGuire (Dr McGuire's son) has published a more balanced biography, which outlines the major contributions Dr McGuire made...

The second sacrifice: costly advances in medicine and surgery during the Civil War.

Surgical technique and the control of infections that can follow surgical procedures are part of the grim facts of war. It is a terrifying irony that while men strive on the battlefield to find more efficient and faster ways of killing other men, forms dehumanized as the "enemy," human beings behind the lines of "glorious" battle strive with equal vigor to find more efficient and faster ways of...

Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War