Medicine in the Civil War

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Reasons include the fact that there were poor physicals before entering the army, ignorance of medical information, lack of camp hygiene, insects that carried disease, lack of clothing and shoes, troops were crowded and in close quarters and inadequate food and water...
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When surgeons would suggest or treat diseases and wounds, sometimes they would not only not help but they would make the wounds or disease worse. For example, doctors sometimes suggested that each man should soap his socks in water each day, to avoid sores to the feet...
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