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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Civil War surgeon will also demonstrate an amputation 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday as well as 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday — the depiction could be considered graphic to some.