GDG- Civil War Medical Question

[Dick Crafton]

Ginny,

Try the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, MD online at www.civilwarmed.org/index.cfm

YOS, Dick Crafton
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ginny Gage 
  To: Gettysburg Discussion Group 
  Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 6:59 AM
  Subject: GDG- Civil War Medical Question


  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


  Esteemed Members,

  Mary Davis and I are working on a Scavenger Hunt for our Civil War
  fundraising group we belong to.

  We¹re looking for a good general Civil War medical question, and someone
  suggested that we ask if there were thermometers during the Civil War, and
  how many?  Evidently they were used then, but there were only about a dozen.

  Does anyone know if this is true?  And, by a dozen, does that mean both
  armies had a dozen each, did only the Union army have them, or what?

  Is there any place I can look up this information?

  Thanks for your help.

  Ginny Gage