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Civil War plant Medicines blast Drug-resistant Bacteria in Lab Tests
Confederate field hospitals turned to traditional remedies under Union blockade.
During the height of the Civil War, the Confederate Surgeon General commissioned a guide to traditional plant remedies of the South, as battlefield physicians faced high rates of infections among the wounded and shortages of conventional medicines. A new study of three of the plants from this guide — the white oak, the tulip poplar and the devil’s walking stick — finds that they have antiseptic properties.
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