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Irritable Heart: Fictional Dr. Foster and Actual Dr. Jacob M. Da Costa
Ashley Bowen-Murphy, MA Mercy Street’s Dr. Foster prepares a morphine injection Dr. Foster (played by Josh Radnor) must have found time to keep up with his medical journals and bulletins! Foster...
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Jacob Mendes Da Costa
Ashley Bowen-Murphy, MA “I declare I hold [physicians] to be true heroes, when I regard their hard existence, their pure pathetic lives; when I recall their cheerfulness and manliness; when I see them,...
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Irritable Heart and Coping with the Trauma of War
Edwin Forbes, The Tired Soldier – A Sketch from Life at Petersburg during the Siege, drawing in pencil, June 19, 1864. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Available online. When Dr....
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24th Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine
The Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine brings together scholars, practitioners, and amateur historians from across the globe to discuss the history of Civil War medicine and its enduring impact...
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How the Pension Office Forced Women to Fight for Survival After the Civil War After the Civil War, thousands of women were left to care for their wounded warriors. These women walked a tightrope...
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“A Peculiar Functional Disorder:” Irritable Heart and the American Civil War
Learn more about the incredible work of Dr. Jacob Mendes Da Costa and “irritable heart.” Dr. Jacob Mendes Da Costa examined Private Joseph Work for the first time at Satterlee General Hospital in west...
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