|
#11
●
03-25-2012, 04:29 PM
| ||||||||
 ★ Legacy Member ★ Poster Rank:425 Male Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2,700 Mentioned: 2 Post(s) Quoted: 330 Post(s)
| ||||||||
|
Re: The Gruesome Reality of Amputations in the American Civil WarNext
I read a first hand account of an amputation without anaesthesia, in a Jap prison camp.  Nope, I'd rather be dead, thank you very much.  |
|
#16
●
04-02-2012, 12:18 AM
| ||||||||
 My Rank: LANCE CORPORAL Poster Rank:2155 lady Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 220 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 6 Post(s)
| ||||||||
|
Re: The Gruesome Reality of Amputations in the American Civil WarNext
It's amazing there was any survival rate at all. So unhygienic. Reminds me of the childbirth deaths, those caused by physicians not washing hands or sheets and moving from one patient to another and sometimes delivering a baby after doing an autopsy. My how far we have come.  |
