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These weird remedies used before modern medicine show how people treated illness with dung, smoke, mercury, skull drilling, and more.
Artists Impression: A Civil War era soldier on a stretcher.
Discover five Civil War medical innovations that helped shape modern emergency care, anesthesia, triage, surgery, and infection control.
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Keep reading to learn about six of the strangest medical treatments in history, ranging from smoking cigarettes to milk transfusions.