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Amputation is a medical procedure used for hundreds of years to contain infection and remove diseased tissue. However, until about the early 1900s, it was very risky and extremely painful - there was no anesthetic, very little blood loss control and no antibiotics to control infection.
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∙ 13y agoIt was done in rather crude- battlefield settings at the time of the Civil War- when a leg could have been gangrenous from bullet or shell fragments- as explosive shells were used in that war.
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