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Medicines during the civil war

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They technically didn't. Modern medicine like penicillin weren't made to late twentieth century. So when soldiers were shot they died or the limb was amputated but the did use alcohol for a sort of pain killer.

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they used antibiotics such as penicillin and painkillers. the only other way of treatment was blood transfusions.

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Whiskey, Poke root, chloroform, and opium

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