Table 5: Civil War Medicine: Worksheet

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Please answer the following questions. When all of them are finished and each of you has completed an answer or comment, please return this sheet to your teacher and prepare to move on to the next table.


1. What would be your reaction towards a loved one returning from war as an amputee? What things might you say and do?
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2. List several medical advances that we have in this century that did not exist in the 19thcentury at the time of the Civil War. Example: X-Rays
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3. Complete the Sickness, Triage, and Research activities on the activity card for this station. Then, list below one way that being a Civil War doctor is easier than being a soldier, and one way that it is more difficult.
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4. Civil War doctors were not well-liked or respected, and even today there are many myths about their service. Do you think they deserved to be called “butchers” and other things? Why or why not?
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