A Civil war physician talks about how patients were taken care of only if they had the money, and the treatments did nothing to cure them of their ailments: “December 25th—Christmas. We are still in tents, when ought to be in huts—the poor sick, suffer much in tents this cold weather. But we now treat them differently from what they used to be at home. . . . We avoid piddling pills, powders, Babus’s Linctus’s cordials—and all such insignificant matters whose powers are only rendered important by causing the patient to vomit up his money instead of his disease. But very few of the sick men die.” —Albigence Waldo on care of sick at Valley Forge
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:29:31 +0000
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