Of the approximately 30,000 amputations performed in the Civil War there was a 26.3-percent ... leg is the highlight of one episode. Saws, Catlin knives, tourniquets, tenacula, Nelaton probes ...

Anyone who has seen a Civil War film or TV show has likely watched at least one scene of a surgeon grimly approaching a wounded soldier with saw in hand. Surgeons performed 60,000 amputations ...

Of the almost thirty thousand amputations recorded in the Union Army, the mortality rate was 26.3 percent. Were Civil War physicians “butchers” then? This question is perhaps best answered by ...

(Evgeniy Maloletka/AP) They are among Ukraine’s 380,000 war wounded, according to President ... When he looked down at his left leg, all he saw was bone. “I quickly accepted the fact that ...

Wounded, Recovered and Back to War. Ukrainian Soldiers Are Returning to Battle After Amputation DONETSK REGION ... When he looked down at his left leg, all he saw was bone.

Anyone who has seen a Civil War film or TV show has likely watched at least one scene of a surgeon grimly approaching a wounded soldier with saw in hand. Surgeons performed 60,000 amputations during ...