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What Doctors Also Did Instead of Medicine

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What Doctors Also Did Instead of Medicine

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Some techniques doctors used were blood-letting, purging, and blistering. These were some of the many disgusting and painful amputations, needed to survive. Blood-letting was the act of letting blood drain out of the body so some of the disease can weaken. Purge was the act of vomiting on purpose to expose of the toxins. Blistering was the act of turning your skin to blisters by adding chemical onto it, giving doctors the assumption that it would get rid of the toxins.

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Medicine was very crucial because the men were needed. Although many died, 2/3 of the population died from disease. These disease's were dysentery, typhoid fever, pneumonia, mumps, measles and tuberculosis spread among the poorly sanitized camps. All these diseases were basically the reason medicine was needed in the first place.

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Without medicine, it was hard to keep men alive, making it even more difficult to win some battles. If the battles were lost we would have ended up losing the war, making medicine of the most important tools in any war.

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During the civil war medicine was crucial to helping soldiers survive. People viewed medicine as a way live more longer and better. Although without it, there was no hope of living.

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Most of the time the doctors used Anesthesia to perform surgeries such as Amputations. Some Anesthesia's were ether and chloroform. Although as we evolved, the use of these medicines declined, due to better and more effective numbers such as inhalers.