Chloroform was used for pain when available. If chloroform was not available whiskey was used for the pain. Then to treat the wounds herb's were used.
It was used to treat wounds. Sugar kills bacteria in wounds and has no adverse side affects.
They didn't have alot of medicine back in those days ,but they still had some medicines to treat the wounds.
Iodine was used as a disinfectant to treat wounds during the civil war. It is still used today for the same purposes in hospitals, although care has to be taken not to burn the unaffected skin outside of the wounds.
they didnt
War wounds, infection, and disease
Amputation
75%
Bullet wounds, which could get infected.
infections from battle wounds
It was used as a medicine in the Civil War. It treated infections from wounds. No antibiotics were available then!
More than 50% of the soldiers who died in the Civil War died of disease or complications from their wounds.
yes