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 ...
When one of them saw the 4th and 6th ... mutilated it needed immediate amputation. For all that, New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle, scholars agree ...
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 ...