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Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion:
The groundbreaking Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (MSHWR) provided an unmatched record of the Civil War experience. It epitomized the Army Medical Museum's commitment to learn and record the experiences of Civil War physicians and patients in order to help educate future generations. Widely regarded as one of the first major American contributions to the field of medicine, the massive, six-volume set heralded the advent of modern scientific medical practice. Through innovative graphics, meticulous case histories, and treatises on the state-of-the-art in medicine, MSHWR detailed the extraordinary effort to document hundreds of thousands of medical cases. The volumes illustrated the impacts of the war and the quality of the medical response in an unprecedented fashion. |