Civil War Medicine (part 1)

Civil War Medicine (part 1)

Civil War Medicine (part 1)
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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 5 to 7
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	5.85

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		latrine, malnutrition, battlefield, battle, toll, dealing, fairly, camps, design, affected, especially, morale, tack, regularly, corps, wounds
	content words:		Civil War

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Civil War Medicine (part 1)
By Mary L. Bushong

¹     The battle raged for hours--sometimes days. As the armies clashed, the line of fighting would move to different places on the battle field. What happened to the injured that were left on the field? That was when the medical corps took over.

²     At the start of the Civil War, medicine was still fairly primitive. All doctors were called surgeons. They would often attend college for just two years of training. Most of that training was from books; just a small amount of time was spent dealing with patients.

³     When the war started, there were just over 100 experienced army surgeons. When war was declared, more than 20 of those men left to return to the South. That group was to form the center of the Confederate medical corps.

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