Muskets and Medicine, or, Army Life in the Sixties

 From: collections.countway.harvard.edu

Charles B. Johnson (1843- 1928) served with the 130th and 77th Illinois regiments and became a physician after the war. Late in life, he published this memoir of his experiences with particular attention to medical care and diseases of soldiers during the Civil War.   Johnson himself was troubled with chronic diarrhea over a six-year period and here describes some of the similar afflictions suffered by his comrades.  Diarrhea and dysentery were the most common illnesses afflicting Civil War combatants, followed by typhoid fever, pneumonia, and malaria.

Muskets and Medicine, or, Army Life in the Sixties
By Charles Beneulyn Johnson (1843- 1928)
(Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co., ; London : S. Phillips, 1917).
From the collections of the Library of Harvard Medical School.

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