Medicine During

the Civil War

Abbi Heafner
HIS 131-711
15 October 2020
Amputation and
Surgical Kit

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 Capital Saw
• Used to cut bone during
Amputations

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 Trephine
• Used to cut holes out of
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 Tourniquet

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Clara Barton
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 Mary Ann
Bickerdyke
• Nurse for Union soldiers

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 Elizabeth Blackwell
• First woman to receive a
medical degree in the U.S
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 Dorothea Dix
• Advocated for the
mentally ill
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Dovers Powder
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• Used to treat common colds
and fevers
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 • Used to treat almost all diseases
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 Quinine • Treatment for Malaria

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 Chloroform • Used as anesthesia

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