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Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science Tots_Gift_Guide Washington Post reporter and authorNearly two thirds of the Civil Wars approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared. In the years before the war, training for physicians in the United States was mostly unregulated, and medical schools' access to cadavers for teaching purposes was highly restricted. Shauna Devine argues that in spite of these limitations, Union army physicians rose to the