Gangrene and Glory Diane L. Schneider M.D. Caregivers/Caregiver Support Act

Caregivers/Caregiver Support Act

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Gangrene and Glory Diane L. Schneider M.D. Caregivers/Caregiver Support ActThis unusual history of the Civil War takes a close look at the battlefield doctors in whose hands rested the lives of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and at the makeshift medicine they were forced to employ. A medical doctor and a credentialed historian, Frank R. Freemon combines poignant, sometimes horrifying anecdotes of amputation, infection, and death with a clearheaded discussion of the state of medical knowledge, the effect of the