Join National Museum of Civil War Medicine volunteer, Brad Stone in-person on September 27 at 7:00 p.m. as he discusses medicine in an age before ambulances, anesthesia, antiseptics, triage, or sterile conditions, and the medical advancements precipitated by the Civil War.
In this family friendly, living history presentation, Mr. Stone, portraying a Union surgeon, will demonstrate field hospital medical practices, including a surgery using a life-sized mannequin.
Venue: Poolesville Presbyterian Church Sanctuary, 17800 Elgin Rd., Poolesville, MD
Brad Stone is a volunteer at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, MD and aboard the USS Constellation in Baltimore Harbor. Over the past few years, he has developed presentations on an assortment of Civil War-related topics. His talks have been given at a wide variety of venues including the Gettysburg Heritage Center, the Antietam Battlefield National Park and the U.S. Navy Museum at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC. A couple of his talks have also been televised nationally on C-SPAN3 American History TV.