Civil War Medicine - Annotated by Robert Hicks (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>1. This book provides a fresh look at soldiers experiences' by capturing the first-person account of a military surgeon.</p> <p>2. The diary has never been published before and allows readers to experience battles as physicians saw them, exploring the relationship between the doctors and soldiers and how doctors managed soldiers' health, disease, injuries, and recovery.</p> <p>3. The book also includes accessible chapters by leading experts in Civil War medicine, who put Fulton's experiences in context with the larger development of medicine during the war.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this never before published diary, 29-year-old surgeon James Fulton transports readers into the harsh and deadly conditions of the Civil War as he struggles to save the lives of the patients under his care. Fulton joined a Union army volunteer regiment in 1862, only a year into the Civil War, and immediately began chronicling his experiences in a pocket diary. Despite his capture by the Confederate Army at Gettysburg and the confiscation of his medical tools, Fulton was able to keep his diary with him at all times. He provides a detailed account of the next two years, including his experiences treating the wounded and diseased during some of the most critical campaigns of the Civil War and his relationships with soldiers, their commanders, civilians, other health-care workers, and the opposing Confederate army. The diary also includes his notes on recipes for medical ailments from sore throats to syphilis.</p><p>In addition to Fulton's diary, editor Robert D. Hicks and experts in Civil War medicine provide context and additional information on the practice and development of medicine during the Civil War, including the technology and methods available at the time, the organization of military medicine, doctor-patient interactions, and the role of women as caregivers and relief workers. <em>Civil War Medicine: A Surgeon's Diary</em> provides a compelling new account of the lives of soldiers during the Civil War and a doctor's experience of one of the worst health crises ever faced by the United States.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Robert D. Hicks is Director of the Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, where he holds the William Maul Measey Chair for the History of Medicine. He is the author of <i>Voyage to Jamestown: Practical Navigation in the Age of Discovery.</p></i></p>
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