The Medical Environment of the Ironclad Navy By Jan K. Herman Historian, Navy Medical Department Director, Benjamin Rush Education Center.

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The Medical Environment of the Ironclad Navy By Jan K. Herman Historian, Navy Medical Department Director, Benjamin Rush Education Center

“David goes out to meet Goliath and every man who can walk to the beach sits down there, spectators of the first ironclad battle of the world…”

Congress, Cumberland, and Minnesota under attack

Captain John Worden, USN “Soon, after noon, a shell from the enemy’s gun, the muzzle not ten yards distant, struck the forward side of the pilot’s house directly in the sight hole or slit and exploded, cracking the second iron log and partly lifting the top, leaving an opening.”

A Visit to the Captain’s Cabin

Fighting a Losing Battle Cumberland vs. Merrimack (1862)

Gundeck of CSS Virginia (or is it Merrimack?)

11-Inch Dahlgrens in Monitor’s Turret (Aging like a fine wine…or not)

Drug Cabinet Civil War Surgical Kit Marvels of “Modern Medicine”

Ericsson’s Monitor at Sea

Coal Heavers

“Tinclad” with Awning

Ironclads in Storm

Tripolitan Wars

Sea Battle in the Age of Sail

CSS Atlanta Surrenders to USS Nahant

Flight Operations aboard Aircraft Carrier

USS Cairo

Breach-loading Artillery

Gihon’s “Ambulance Cots”

“Great White Fleet”

U.S. Naval Medical School

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