Of the approximately 30,000 amputations performed in the Civil War there was a 26.3-percent mortality rate. In the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, ...

Amputations, iron hands, wooden legs: A history of artificial body parts Since the 1700s, surgeons have been coming up with ways to help amputees manage their world. June 8, 2024 More than 1 year ago ...

They’re members of the Single Leg Amputee Sports Association (SLASA), an organization co-founded by pastor Mambud Samai in 2001 after he returned home toward the end of Sierra Leone’s deadly ...

Civil war. Extremists took over a N.J. county’s leadership. ... on a South Jersey man’s recovery after contracting a rare and deadly flesh-eating disease that left him a quadruple amputee.

The Civil War remains one of the most important chapters in American history. But the conflict itself was more complex than North vs. South. ... All amputations were done without anesthesia.

Life-Saving Amputation. The old battlefield technique of trying to save limbs with doses of TLC (aided by wound-cleaning rats and maggots) fell out of favor during the Civil War, even for top ...

Ukrainian soldiers who lost limbs in the three-year war against Russia are returning to the battlefield out of a sense of duty amid the grim outlook for their country.

The Civil War soldier John Wesley Powell, of the Twentieth Illinois Volunteers, came to war with an interesting background. The 27-year-old had already moved with his family from New York to ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the United States Colored Troops, which led her to a distant relative, a ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ Leg amputations haven't changed much in a very long time. Civil War-era textbooks describing them look pretty similar to contemporary ones, said Dr. Matthew Carty, a ...

The Civil War was the bloodiest in US history: more Americans perished in five years than in all other conflicts combined. What was it like to fight? Soldiers faced new technology on the field ...

Wounded, recovered and back to war: Ukrainian soldiers are returning to battle after amputation Many Ukrainian brigades have at least one, and often several, amputee soldiers who have returned to ...