Museum brings medicine into present

FREDERICK, Md. (Baltimore Examiner) - Like Washington’s cherry tree and the Tecumseh curse, the barbaric reputation of Civil War doctors is little more than an American legend, says Ryan Rokicki, curator of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick.
“A lot myths have been perpetrated over the years — Civil War surgeons being butchers rather than doctors and patients undergoing very harsh operations, kicking, screaming, and biting the bullet,” Rokicki said. “None of this is true.” Continued.

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