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“To Make Something Out of the Dying in This War”: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science

“To Make Something Out of the Dying in This War”: The Civil War and the Rise of American... to m watson bro wn book award “To Make Something Out of the Dying in This War” The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science shauna devi n e editor’s note: The following represents the acceptance speech for the Watson Brown Prize for the best book published on the Civil War era in the calendar year 2014. Tad Brown, president of the Watson-Brown Foundation, awarded the prize to Shauna Devine for her book Learning from the Wounded, published by the University of North Carolina Press. These remarks were given at the annual banquet of the Society of Civil War Historians (SCWH), held during the Southern Historian Association annual meeting on November 13, 2015, in Little Rock, Arkansas. The SCWH judges and administers the book prize. Dr. Devine’s address employs a variety of medical terms; these are explained in a glossary at the end of this article. On July 10, 1863, Pvt. Charles McElroy of Connecticut was transferred from the Eleventh Army Corps Hospital to the Jarvis USA General Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He was suffering from a wound to the left leg, received during the Battle of Gettysburg. The case report noted that the whole belly of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

“To Make Something Out of the Dying in This War”: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science

The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 6 (2) – Jun 2, 2016

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to m watson bro wn book award “To Make Something Out of the Dying in This War” The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science shauna devi n e editor’s note: The following represents the acceptance speech for the Watson Brown Prize for the best book published on the Civil War era in the calendar year 2014. Tad Brown, president of the Watson-Brown Foundation, awarded the prize to Shauna Devine for her book Learning from the Wounded, published by the University of North Carolina Press. These remarks were given at the annual banquet of the Society of Civil War Historians (SCWH), held during the Southern Historian Association annual meeting on November 13, 2015, in Little Rock, Arkansas. The SCWH judges and administers the book prize. Dr. Devine’s address employs a variety of medical terms; these are explained in a glossary at the end of this article. On July 10, 1863, Pvt. Charles McElroy of Connecticut was transferred from the Eleventh Army Corps Hospital to the Jarvis USA General Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He was suffering from a wound to the left leg, received during the Battle of Gettysburg. The case report noted that the whole belly of

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Published: Jun 2, 2016

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