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The history of military medicine in the United States provides
some interesting...

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MILITARY MEDICINE

The history of military medicine in the United States provides
some interesting benchmarks for examining how medicine and health care have
changed. Choose one of the topics. I will provide you with more specific questions.

Choose a specific period of military medicine associated with a
specific military conflict:

XXXXXXXXXXAmerican Revolution

XXXXXXXXXXWar of 1812

XXXXXXXXXXMexican-American War

XXXXXXXXXXU.S. Civil War

1898 Spanish-American War

XXXXXXXXXXWorld War I

XXXXXXXXXXWorld War II

XXXXXXXXXXKorean War

XXXXXXXXXXVietnam War

XXXXXXXXXXPersian Gulf War

2001- Invasion of Afghanistan & Iraq

Do a Google (or other) internet search for military medicine
during your assigned military conflict or time period. Keep in mind that some
conflicts (e.g. U.S. Civil War) may have different names.

As with any information quest, consider the W words as a starting point:

Who What When Where Why How

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Military medicine in the American Civil War 
Preceded by: 
 Change from musket fire, which was inaccurate and so kept casualties low, to rifles, 
which significantly increased lethality of weapons. 
 Increased supply infrastructure meant larger, better equipped, more dangerous armies. 
 The birth of modern medical medicine, with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 
preceded the Civil War, but the lesson were not widespread at that stage. 
 First „modern‟ war (in terms of weapons) but medical care was still pre-modern. 
Introduction of: 
 medicinal wing of the army, under jurisdiction of “Medical Director of the Army”,  
 the first field hospitals (small tents with a few tables or beds for the wounded),  
 a system of transport of the wounded to general hospitals was created,

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