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Robert D. Hicks

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Woodcut from the March 11, 1865, Harper’s Weekly

“The Popular Dose with Doctors”: Quinine and the American Civil War

During the Civil War necessity drove the North and South to develop different strategies for dealing with malaria.

Frontline Pharmacies

The impact of the Civil War can still be seen politically, socially, and economically, but its influence on medicine is often obscured.