Dr. William Watt White

Dr. William Watt White (HM2BQM)

Location: Cuero, TX 77954 DeWitt County
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Country: United States of America
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N 29° 13.072', W 97° 17.8'

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(1829 - 1914)

Surgeon of Waul's Legion, Confederate Army.

Came to Texas about 1850. In 1856 got M.D. degree in Philadelphia. During Civil War, saved many lives, but took typhoid, which contributed to loss of his eyesight. After blindness, practiced rest of his life. Was local educational and civic leader, this county.

Confederate doctors had many problems with drug supply, surgical tools, horse-drawn ambulances and hospitals. Instruments had to be bought in Europe (shipped through naval blockade) or captured from the foe. Drugs came in by blockade - runner or were brought from North by ladies who hid them on their person: in pompadours, bustles, petticoats. Scarcities led to use of dogwood, willow and poplar bark tea as substitute for quinine. Mullein and other wild herbs were also medical substitutes. Garden poppies were milked for opium. Sutures were made of horsehair softened by boiling, or by raveling silk cloth.

Female nurses were used for first time in army hospitals. This was first war to use anesthetics. Amputations left severed limbs stacked like wood around the field hospitals. Ambulances seemed never at hand for casualties; many died awaiting aid. Till the atom bomb, the Civil War was history's bloodiest.
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HM NumberHM2BQM
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Year Placed1965
Placed ByState Historical Survey Committee. (Marker Number 1283.)
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Date Added Friday, September 28th, 2018 at 8:02am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)14R E 665568 N 3233325
Decimal Degrees29.21786667, -97.29666667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 29° 13.072', W 97° 17.8'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds29° 13' 4.32" N, 97° 17' 48" W
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Area Code(s)361, 830
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling South
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 7501 US-183, Cuero TX 77954, US
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