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Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet: Burt Green Wilder

Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet: Burt Green Wilder

Reid

Hardcover

Series: Civil War in the North

Biographies GeneralMedical ReferenceCivil War Period (1850-1877)

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1606353284
ISBN13: 9781606353288
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: Jul 25 2017
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

In July 1862, Burt Green Wilder left Boston to join Dr. Francis Brown, a surgeon working at Judiciary Square Hospital, one of the new army pavilion hospitals in Washington, D.C. Wilder had just finished his degree in comparative anatomy at Harvard, and the chance to assist Brown rather than serve as a soldier in the army was appealing. For the next ten months Wilder worked in the hospital's wards as a medical cadet. Although he lacked formal medical training, he had aptitude, ability, and an advanced knowledge of anatomy. These qualities were increasingly valued in a medical department being reformed by the new surgeon general, William Hammond, who demanded a more scientific approach to medical care and to the creation and dissemination of medical knowledge. Forty-five years after the war ended Wilder began to draft his recollections of an era that had transformed him personally and radically altered American medicine.

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