Sanitation In The American Civil War

History itself is always fluctuating and throughout the centuries, this can be demonstrated in significant events that occurs each decade. Throughout 1861 to 1865 the American Civil War was considered the bloodiest years ever, but also Middle Ages of Medicine. The American Civil War sparked new innovations in medicine, such as :new sanitization techniques, surgeons with more knowledge, African American surgeons earning more respect, and new ways of transporting the ill were established. The Civil War was a war that lacked means of sanitation, and because of that led to established many improvements during that time era especially in the field of medicine. In the United States medicine was mournfully behind Europe with many doctors lacking

During that time period the diseases type that broke out were measles,smallpox,malaria and camp itch. This ignorance of sanitization had a huge impact by making an U.S sanitary commision. Their job was to face the sanitation and health problems in army camps now that they saw that the government didn't care about those problems during the war. Surgeon Charles Tripler’s outline on sanitation stated’’Requiring reports at short intervals of the sanitary condition of the regiments, and in instituting regular and through sanitary inspections , by officers of experience of the medical department of the army, who are competent to perform that duty , who understand what is necessary and what superfluous, and upon whose reports we can undertake to correct errors and abuses understandingly.’’ The germ theory of disease wasn’t established until 1870, and diseases were either thought to be direct or indirect inflammation. The sterile technique did not exist during that time era. Physicians were in the era before the germ theory of Nowadays the sanitization has protocols but during the Civil War there were not any protocols of

He created a system that assured superior communication among the field of hospitals and having the knowledgeable medical team in the military division made an outcome of better care for the soldiers. Letterman then came up with the Emergency Response system or other knows as the Er it was made up of fifty ambulances in which each driver contained two stretcher bearers, to lead the injured to field hospitals. Due to what Letterman created as years passed he was an influence of the 911 system the United States has today. As you observe the photographic image taken during the Civil war representing a newly organized corps soon after the Battle Of Antietam .The observer can take into account the ambulance drill being put into act during the war making a rapid attempt to take the wounded to get treated ,and having other people working together as a team to get the job done faster. You can also observe that the ambulance system was a well organized. During this time era ,you began to see an expansion of medical schools,and a large variety of females going into the nursing field. In the 1862 there were about six hundred trained nurses in the nation and all of them were catholic nuns. As the Civil war took place there were 5,000 to 6,000 women that came forward to serve as nurses for the North. In the year of 1765 the