The National Museum of Civil War Medicine Events

May 19, 2012

Garden Party

Join the staff at the Pry House for a “garden party” to prepare the nineteenth century-style kitchen and medicinal garden.

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Military surgeons only did basic surgical techniques


By civilwarmed, October 17, 2010

The roots of modern plastic and reconstructive surgery can be traced to the surgical inventiveness of numerous military surgeons.  Men with severe facial and head wounds were the beneficiary of this “new” technology.