Medical+Care+of+the+Civil+War

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Medical Care in the Civil War More people died from infection after a wound or poor treatment of a wound than from getting shot and dying on the spot. Other soldiers died from diseases not common to them such as measles, mumps, and whooping cough. Another problem in the War was medicine was very scarce.
 * In the Civil War medical care was scarce.

In the War there were only 36 surgeons in the entire U.S. This war went on for a much longer time than people expected and many died from lack of medical care. We are lucky today that it is so much better. **