Book ID: CBB001213254

Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care (2013)

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McGaugh, Scott (Author)


Arcade Publishing


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xxi + 342 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Recounts the life of the Civil War surgeon and how he made battlefield survival possible by creating the first organized ambulance corps and a more effective field hospital system.

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Authors & Contributors
Lande, R. Gregory
Devine, Shauna
Coddington, Ronald S.
Sarah Handley-Cousins
Waggoner, Jesse
Tuten, James H.
Concepts
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Surgery
Nurses and nursing
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
England
Virginia (U.S.)
Scotland
Pennsylvania (U.S.)
Institutions
Royal College of Surgeons, London
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