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Not usually. A doctor's bag included various saws for cutting through bone and tissue, and big clippers, the lot looking more like yard tools and hacksaws. It took a strong man to saw through a limb quickly, in the approved fashion. Many Civil War nurses were male, often soldiers recovering from their own wounds, or sickness.
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Did the US nurses have to cut off body parts of a wounded soldier World War 1?
maybe put on other people that need it Usually, surgeons perform amputations. Nurses assist.
What was 75 percent of all opperations done by docotrs during the civil war?
The vast majority of surgeries in the Civil War were amputations.
What was the greatest cause of death on the soldiers on both sides during the Civil War?
amputations
What are orderlies?
nurses for the civil war.
What was used to solve serious wounded limbs during the civil war?
a saw of course! amputations....
How many nurses were at the start of the Battle of Gettysburg?
there was 2,683,948 nurses in the civil war
What role did elizabeth blackwell play in the civil war?
She organized the nurses corp in the civil war.
What did the nurses in the red cross during the civil war wear?
The nurses in the Red Cross during the Civil War wore white dresses. This was to show how clean they were.
In the Civil War for the first time thousands of women served as what?
Nurses. They served as Nurses.
What were the head of the nurses called in the civil war?
24r
What did the nurses where back then in the civil war?
doctor suits
In the civil war thousands of women served as?
Nurses
