The medical treatment of American soldiers from the Civil War to the Korean War has gradually improved due to cleaner facilities.Due to cleaner facilities, there had been less casualties due to illness and disease.
<Tab/><Tab/>"Disease was responsible for the death of more Union Soldiers than were the Confederates.Nearly sixty percent of the Federal deaths in the war were the results of disease.About half of those deaths were the results of internal disorders, primarily dysentery, diarrhea and typhoid fever.The other half died mostly of tuberculosis or pneumonia."(Medical Treatment in the Civil War).During the Civil War the conditions of the facilities were very poor.…
