Civil War medicine
Civil War medicine is a scholarly work, published in 1973 in ''AORN Journal''. The main subjects of the publication include surgery, eugenics, tap water, medicine, and history of medicine. We operated in old bloodstained and often pus‐stained coats … with undisinfected hands … We used undisinfected instruments … and marine sponges which had been used in prior pus cases and only washed in tap water..