17,245 different people had amputated arms, legs, and other stuff in WW1
The previous answer was obouoisly fake and many people died from scurvy and if you belived that answer you are a moron/idiot
An 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.
Doctors did the amputating. Thousands of limbs were amputated during the Civil War also.
Union 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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Amputation was the deadly medicine in the English Civil War. Infection would often sit in and kill the soldier after losing a limb.
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 .
limb(s) amputation and/or death from infection
* amputation * bone resections * arterie binding * permanetly fixing fractures * major and minor operations
To cut off limbs that had been too damaged to repair or limbs that had gangrene, in order to save the persons life.
The were many people in the civil war.
antibiotics, anesthesia, modern medicine, amputation, sterilization of medical instruments....