most wartime physicians did embrace the use of anesthetics during the Civil War. Indeed, the sources overwhelming show that by the war’s end most surgeons agreed on the efficacy of chloroform ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast ... The Confederate Army had a tough time securing enough anesthesia because of the Union blockade. The standard method of soaking a handkerchief with chloroform ...

most wartime physicians did embrace the use of anesthetics during the Civil War. Indeed, the sources overwhelming show that by the war’s end most surgeons agreed on the efficacy of chloroform ...