Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War

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Summary: A well rounded view of Civil War medicine!
Review: Gangrene and Glory is a great book covering just about every aspect of medical related issues in the Civil War. It covers key players in the development of medical affairs while bringing forth quite a bit of information to many subject matters. For example, some of the subject matters consist of Confederate/Union healthcare,development,training,medicine,supply,diseases and surgical procedures on and off of the battlefield. Interesting stories are added to certain areas which enhance the book, plus there is mathematical data to back up the chapters. This book is a must read for those interested in medicine and medical operations during the Civil War. It is a somewhat fast read, though gets to the point and has many pictures and is thoughtfully easy to read.

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Summary: bloody guts
Review: I am stimulated to write a review by the previous reviewer. He, perhaps, was looking for an explanatory work with chapters on doctors, nurse, hospitals, etc. The present work tells a story, one might say it reads like a novel. The book describes what happens but only with information available to contemporaries. The doctor-reader can try to use his medical knowledge to make a diagnosis. But the work is not just for doctors: it tells the importance of medical care to the war efforts of North and South and tries to argue that the superior medical care of the North was partially responsible for the Union victory. The miserable diseases and horrible wounds (gangrene) show how horrible the war was for participants and balances the rosy picture of the war given by other works (glory). I hope I can be pardoned for giving my own work 5 stars.

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Summary: bloody guts
Review: This book is highly recommended for anyone interested in the subject of Civil War medicine.

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Summary: reads like a novel
Review: This exciting work reads like a novel. It is full of pictures and graphs, but if you read the book from the first page you find that your are engrossed in a story full of vivid descriptions and action.

Rating:
Summary: reads like a novel
Review: This exciting work reads like a novel. It is full of pictures and graphs, but if you read the book from the first page you find that your are engrossed in a story full of vivid descriptions and action.