Chemical Heritage Magazine – Frontline Pharmacies: The American Civil War’s Impact on Modern Medicine
By Robert Hicks | Summer 2011
“…By the end of the Civil War, a radical reorganization of the medical field had occurred. The Medical Department could boast of an ambulance system, a sequence of care facilities from battlefield surgery to general hospitals, evacuation of the sick and wounded by train, and a nascent nursing profession….”
http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/magazine/articles/29-2-frontline-pharmacies.aspx
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