Civil War medicine lacked understanding of bacteriology and the causes of disease. Doctors at the time were ignorant of what caused disease and how to prevent its spread or cure illnesses. Overall, Civil War medicine was before advances in understanding disease transmission and treatment.

5. Civil War medicine was in a time before the
doctors even knew much about bacteriology
and were ignorant of what caused disease.
Little was known about what caused disease, how to
stop it from spreading, or how to cure it