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17,245 different people had amputated arms, legs, and other stuff in WW1
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∙ 14y agoThe previous answer was obouoisly fake and many people died from scurvy and if you belived that answer you are a moron/idiot
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∙ 14y agoAn accurate number may not exist, because many soldiers later died from infection, but it is known three out of four operations in field hospitals were amputations.
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∙ 11y agoDoctors did the amputating. Thousands of limbs were amputated during the Civil War also.
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∙ 6y agoUnion US Civil War records on the events of the war were more accurate than those of the South. For the Union soldiers, nearly 30,000 of them had amputation surgery during the war.
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Treatment of Gangrene during Civil War?
Amputation.
How long did amputation take in the civil war?
5HRS
What was the most common treatment for wounds in he civil war?
Amputation
What was the most common operation preformed by surgeons during the civil war?
Amputation
What was in an amputation kit during the Civil War?
I know one thing was penacilin
The deadly medicine in the English Civil War?
Amputation was the deadly medicine in the English Civil War. Infection would often sit in and kill the soldier after losing a limb.
What was the most common surgery in the civil war?
The most common surgery was that of amputation of either an arm or leg . This was done without the benefit of anesthesia or antibiotics . Gangrene often developed resulting in the slow agonizing death of the patient .
What risk did a soldier face if he survived being wounded in the civil war battle?
limb(s) amputation and/or death from infection
What were some of the medical practices in the civil war?
* amputation * bone resections * arterie binding * permanetly fixing fractures * major and minor operations
What were amputation knives used for in the civil war?
To cut off limbs that had been too damaged to repair or limbs that had gangrene, in order to save the persons life.
Who was the people in the Civil War?
The were many people in the civil war.
What is a major modern day concept in medicine that was still a rudimentary science during the civil war?
antibiotics, anesthesia, modern medicine, amputation, sterilization of medical instruments....
