American Civil War soldiers didn’t trust their incompetent doctors!

>Once again, the Tishomingo Hotel became a hospital, and the federal infantrymen believed their doctors were just as incompetent as the rebels did. To Hugh Carlisle of the 81st Ohio, they were perpetrators of malpractice and dispensed the same ineffectual powders no matter what the ailment. He refused to take his medicine. “You must think I am a damn fool,” the surgeon said to him. >”You must be a mind reader,” Carlisle replied. __________________________ **Source:** Jenkins, Sally, and John Stauffer. “Corinth.” *The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy*. Anchor Books, 2010. 22. Print.