Medical Record

Medical Record
Author: George Frederick Shrady
Publisher:
Total Pages: 608
Release: 1868
Genre: Medicine
ISBN:

Mosquito Soldiers

Mosquito Soldiers
Author: Andrew McIlwaine Bell
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2010-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0807137375

Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. In this ground-breaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell explores the impact of two terrifying mosquito-borne maladies---malaria and yellow fever---on the major political and military events of the 1860s, revealing how deadly microorganisms carried by a tiny insect helped shape the course of the Civil War.