???? Since medical expansion would reach other countries much later with methods such as sterilization and ventilation, the medical movement around the world would be drastically slowed down. We would not be as advanced as we are today. This delay of information could have effected the turn ?? out of other wars as well. There could have been a higher mortality rate in wars like World War I and II, changing history. This also could have effected regular lives if there was less medical attention for civilians of America, and other countries.
On the medical aspect of the Civil War, the Union and the Confederacy's medical units both struggled in the beginning years of the war. No one believed that this war would have exceeded a few months of battles and no one believed that it would as bloody and deadly as it was. Therefore militaries and medical units were unprepared for and overwhelmed by the amounts of the