The previous post had you coming up with questions about medicine during the American Civil War era. Select a question from the last blog and either answer the question or come up with a follow up question.
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Rylan N
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THey didnt use much painkillers they just put them to sleep
I am answering Jacob Libby's question of what kind of diseases came to people?
Answer:
Dysentery. This one disease accounted for around 45,000 deaths in the Union army and around 50,000 deaths in the Confederate army.
Typhoid was another major killer. Again this disease was a result of contaminated water or food. Typhoid killed around 30,000 Confederate and 35,000 Union troops during the war. 1 out of every 3 people who contracted this disease died of it.
Pneumonia was responsible for the deaths of 20,000 Union and 17,000 Confederate troops. 1 in 6 people who got this disease died from it. Stonewall Jackson died from Pneumonia after being shot during the battle of Chancellorsville by his own men. Pneumonia was more of an opportunistic type of disease. It looked for weak people to inject itself into. If you became wounded on the battlefield or became sick with something else there was a good chance Pneumonia was going to find you.
Measles killed a lot of people during the Civil War around 11,000 soldiers total. Not as many as other diseases did but it had its fair share. With so many people gathered in such small areas this disease was able to spread rapidly. About 1 in 20 people who got this disease died as a result of it.
Tuberculosis killed about 14,000 soldiers during the war. No known cure for it during the war. Even today there is no real cure, it can be treated but never cured. Once you get this disease you get it for life.
Malaria was also prevalent during the war killing roughly 30,000 soldiers. This number is high but considering around 3 million people contracted the disease it was not often fatal. This was due in large part to the readily available supply of quinine, which was used to successfully prevent and treat the disease.
What types of medicine was invented during the civil war? Anesthesia inhaler, people learned how to like amputate limbs, and I couldn't find a lot of other things.
31 comments:
THey didnt use much painkillers they just put them to sleep
I am answering Jacob Libby's question of what kind of diseases came to people?
Answer:
Dysentery. This one disease accounted for around 45,000 deaths in the Union army and around 50,000 deaths in the Confederate army.
Typhoid was another major killer. Again this disease was a result of contaminated water or food. Typhoid killed around 30,000 Confederate and 35,000 Union troops during the war. 1 out of every 3 people who contracted this disease died of it.
Pneumonia was responsible for the deaths of 20,000 Union and 17,000 Confederate troops. 1 in 6 people who got this disease died from it. Stonewall Jackson died from Pneumonia after being shot during the battle of Chancellorsville by his own men.
Pneumonia was more of an opportunistic type of disease. It looked for weak people to inject itself into. If you became wounded on the battlefield or became sick with something else there was a good chance Pneumonia was going to find you.
Measles killed a lot of people during the Civil War around 11,000 soldiers total. Not as many as other diseases did but it had its fair share. With so many people gathered in such small areas this disease was able to spread rapidly. About 1 in 20 people who got this disease died as a result of it.
Tuberculosis killed about 14,000 soldiers during the war. No known cure for it during the war. Even today there is no real cure, it can be treated but never cured. Once you get this disease you get it for life.
Malaria was also prevalent during the war killing roughly 30,000 soldiers. This number is high but considering around 3 million people contracted the disease it was not often fatal. This was due in large part to the readily available supply of quinine, which was used to successfully prevent and treat the disease.
http://www.civilwaracademy.com/civil-war-diseases.html
They barely used medicine during the war, they just tied off the wounds and hoped they healed.
They didnt use much medicine during the civil war.
I also have a question, What did they do to anybody who had any of these people who got these diseases, to either cure them or to comfort them.
What was the survival rate when amputating in the years of the Civil war?
Answer to King of The Minions question: When people had surgery, they didn't have any anesthesia, which puts people to sleep.
What are the medicines?
Morphine, an opium based drug, was most commonly used as a pain killer.
It was pretty unlikely. Because they lost lots of blood.
no a lot of meication
What types of medicine was invented during the civil war?
Anesthesia inhaler, people learned how to like amputate limbs, and I couldn't find a lot of other things.
Did they have morphine in the civil war?
Yes they did
When was amputation thought of?
what kind of medicine did they have in the civil war?
Morphine, Chloroform, Ether, carbonic acid-potassium iodide-potassium permanganate-liquid, and more.
Who came up with the idea of amputation?
(Still don't know.)
What was the most deadly disease during the Civil War?
Dysentery and diarrhea apparently.
Was there any sort of Novocain during the civil war?
No, novocain was invented in 1905.
Did they have meds in the civil war?
Answer : they had no antibiotics in the civil war.
Who came up with the idea of amputation?
Don't know
Did the doctor's and nurses ever have to kill some to put them out of there misery?
Most Likely
Did they have meds in the civil war?
Answer : they had no antibiotics in the civil war.
what kind of medicine did they have
Morphine, Chloroform, Ether, carbonic acid-potassium iodide-potassium permanganate-liquid, ect
How did they find out about medicine
I have no idea
Typhoid This disease was a result of contaminated water or food.
Did some people die from taking the medicine.
Yes
Did the doctor's and nurses ever have to kill some to put them out of there misery?
Yes, Because if they had no chance of making it they would often kill or leave them to put them out of there misery.
What is the worst place to get shot at?
Did the doctor's and nurses ever have to kill some to put them out of there misery?
This is by Alysee.
Answer: Yes they probably had too.
What was the most deadly disease?
some of the symptoms of the most deadly disease were dysentary and diharrea
Your blind spots
THey didnt use much painkillers they just put them to sleep
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