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Weekly Whitman: “The Dresser”
Just what did Walt Whitman do in the hospitals where he worked? He was a wound dresser. The duties of the wound dresser—always a man, unless the emergency was dire—were to change bandages, hydrate wounds or operation sites, turn patients … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Medical, Personalities
Tagged "The Dresser", Civil War Hospital, Walt Whitman, weekly-whitman
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