Transcript The Medical Environmentof the Ironclad Navy

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
“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.”
Captain John Worden,
USN
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)
Marvels of
“Modern Medicine”
Civil War
Surgical Kit
Drug Cabinet
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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