054. Frederick, Maryland (USA)
We don’t have to pay, and we can only visit the first floor?
Yeah, sure! Sounds fair to me. Until a few hours ago, I didn’t even know the National Museum of Civil War Medicine existed.
Museums are the zits of knowledge curation. You never really know when and where you’ll find one. And most of ‘em eventually disappear.
Gross. I can handle that Civil War movie, Glory, but this is just straight up disgusting. Limbs and appendages of every kind are stacked up in a pile. This photo is atrocious.
Wait, you’re telling me medicine had to be scooped out of a vial? No pills to ensure proper and consistent dosage! NO [F]ucking children’s safety caps! Ridiculous.
And that’s all there was in a Civil War era surgical kit? Thank you modern medicine.
Wait, what is this? So that’s what a Civil War era sheepskin condom looks like. Interesting.
