Mar 20, 2010 · Calomel was a mercury based compound used extensively by both Union and Confederate doctors to treat a wide variety of medical conditions. It came in two main forms. …

Aug 11, 2015 · Calomel was the wonder drug of the age. In large doses, it functioned as a savage purgative, causing lengthy and productive sessions in the outhouse, guaranteeing the …

Jun 3, 2012 · There had been no alvine evacuations, notwithstanding repeated doses of calomel and rhubarb, Epsom salt, podophyllin, with terebinthinate enemata. In the forenoon, pills …

Mar 15, 2013 · Dr. William Leggett Lewis - Alabama Country Doctor Who Beat 1890s Antisepsis by 30 Years and Saved Four Union Survivors of Day's Gap 1863

Feb 5, 2017 · From The National Museum of Civil War Medicine (with permission) - Most of us have seen this scary photo but have NOT realized it was not from battle but from mercury …

Jan 27, 2011 · Biographer Judith Lee Hallock, for example, suggested that his sour personality might have derived from his chronic ailments, and worsened with self-medicated doses of …

Aug 27, 2011 · I have been studying the immense and complex reference known as The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, whose two volumes were published in the …

Mar 15, 2013 · Bullet forceps and extractors, of various types and sizes were in use during the Civil War. Traditional forceps (pictured at left) worked fine for removing round balls, but not …

Aug 4, 2011 · Taking pills containing mercury wasn't unique to Abraham Lincoln, though. Mercury, in the form of calomel, blue mass and other preparations, was widely prescribed as a medicine …

Jan 25, 2017 · After several ineffectual attempts to extirpate these pests, I succeeded perfectly by sprinkling calomel freely over the wounded surfaces. When the sloughs separated, clean …