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Encore: Angel's Glow

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The Civil War: A Watershed Moment for American Medicine

The Civil War is really kind of a watershed moment for American medicine. During this time, doctors are starting to figure out how the body works. An estimated 750,000 people who died in the war didn't die from bullets. Disease was going to be the number one killer of soldiers during the Civil War.

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