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Amputations and Infection in the Civil War Hospital
Did doctors amputate too readily during the Civil War ... which often included amputation. Civil War physicians, perhaps surprisingly (given the popular depictions in movies like Gone with ...
Modern surgery began with saws and iron hands: How amputation transformed the body in the renaissance
Scholars often depict the American Civil War as an early watershed ... Surgeons performed 60,000 amputations during the war, ...
Amputations, iron hands, wooden legs: A history of artificial body parts
Scholars often depict the American Civil War as an early watershed ... Surgeons performed 60,000 amputations during the war, ...
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Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, City University of New York During the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men were injured, and underwent amputation of hands, feet, limbs, fingers, and toes. As the ...
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Amputations and Infection in the Civil War Hospital
Did doctors amputate too readily during the Civil War ... which often included amputation. Civil War physicians, perhaps surprisingly (given the popular depictions in movies like Gone with ...