(AP) — The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is highlighting some cringe ... It opens with a presentation on medical uses of mercury, now known to be a neurotoxin. Mercury was used for ...

Medicine in the United States did some significant evolving during the Civil War. Prior to the war ... Burgan had taken mercury pills to treat his pneumonia, but the pills had instigated a ...

Civil War-era medicine could cure you — or kill you ... you don’t want to pass out,” like compounds of arsenic, mercury, and lead, as well as morphine and codeine, she says.

These better trained physicians often headed medical schools, and in the Civil War were in the ... the practice of medicine by dictating the removal of the deadly mercury compound, calomel ...

Dr. Ira Rutkow talked about how medicine and surgery changed during the Civil War. He responded to questions from members of the audience. “The Civil War: How Did It Impact Medicine in America?” ...

(AP) - The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is highlighting some cringe ... It opens with a presentation on medical uses of mercury, now known to be a neurotoxin. Mercury was used for ...

Medicine in the United States did some significant evolving during the Civil War. Prior to the war ... Burgan had taken mercury pills to treat his pneumonia, but the pills had instigated a ...