The Civil War represented a dividing line in medical history, Ashleigh Meyer, a historian with Old City Cemetery Museums & Arboretum in Lynchburg, Virginia, explained during a recent webinar.

At the start of the war, medical thinking bordered on the medieval, and many doctors believed in superstitions. But by the war’s endhealth-care knowledge, technology and professions had advanced significantly. … [My article for AARP]