TY - JOUR
T1 - Homeopaths, surgery, and the Civil War
T2 - Edward C. Franklin and the struggle to achieve medical pluralism in the Union army.
AU - Rutkow, Lainie W.
AU - Rutkow, Ira M.
PY - 2004/7
Y1 - 2004/7
N2 - An important aspect of the Union army medical corps throughout the Civil War was the clinical discord that pitted allopathic, or orthodox, physicians against sectarian, or unorthodox, physicians. Allopaths dominated the corps and its examining boards and consequently denied commissions as army surgeons to sectarian practitioners such as the homeopaths. This probably affected surgical manpower needs, since many well-trained homeopathic surgeons, like Edward C. Franklin, one of the nation's busiest and most prolific surgeons, wished to serve in the northern army but were unable to do so.
AB - An important aspect of the Union army medical corps throughout the Civil War was the clinical discord that pitted allopathic, or orthodox, physicians against sectarian, or unorthodox, physicians. Allopaths dominated the corps and its examining boards and consequently denied commissions as army surgeons to sectarian practitioners such as the homeopaths. This probably affected surgical manpower needs, since many well-trained homeopathic surgeons, like Edward C. Franklin, one of the nation's busiest and most prolific surgeons, wished to serve in the northern army but were unable to do so.
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U2 - 10.1001/archsurg.139.7.785
DO - 10.1001/archsurg.139.7.785
M3 - Article
C2 - 15249414
AN - SCOPUS:3242784955
SN - 0004-0010
VL - 139
SP - 785
EP - 791
JO - Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
JF - Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
IS - 7
ER -