What is Medicine in the American Civil War?
'''Medicine in the American Civil War''' was not good by today's standards. Doctors did not know about [[germs]], so many soldiers caught infections. They did have [[anesthesia]], so they were able to stop soldiers' pain.<ref name=CPR>{{cite web|url=https://www.cprcertified.com/medicine-in-the-american-civil-war|publisher=CPR Certified|accessdate=June 6, 2021|author=Mary Williams|title=Medicine in the American Civil War}}</ref><ref name=Tol>{{cite web|url=https://www.utoledo.edu/library/canaday/exhibits/quackery/quack8.html|accessdate=June 6, 2021|publisher=University of Toledo Libraries|title=Medicine in the Civil War|series=From Quackery to Bacteriology}}</ref> Most doctors in the [[United States]] had two years of schooling. [[Harvard Medical School]] did not have even one microscope.<ref name=Ohio>{{cite web|url=https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/cwsurgeon/cwsurgeon/introduction|accessdate=June 6, 2021|publisher=Ohio State University|title=Civil War Medicine: An Overview of Medicine|author=Jenny Goellnitz}}</ref> One problem was that, like in [[World War I]], people had just invented new weapons, like the [[Minié ball]]. Guns with [[rifle|rifled barrels]] did not miss as often as the [[musket]]s from the [[Revolutionary War]] and other earlier wars did. That meant doctors did not already know how to treat the injuries that these weapons could cause in the [[human body]]. Another problem was that the camps and battlefields were very [[sanitation|dirty]]. A soldier in the American Civil war was twice as likely to die of disease as of a battle injury.<ref name=CPR /> ==Diseases== 560,000 soldiers died of diseases during the American Civil War.<ref name=Tol /> [[Malaria]] was a problem in the American Civil War. Doctors gave patients [[quinine]] for malaria.<ref name=CPR /> Soldiers also died of [[dysentery]], [[diarrhea]], and [[typhoid]].<ref name=Tol /> ==Germs== Most doctors did not know about [[germs]] in the mid-1800s. They did not always wash their hands or tools between patients. They al