Of the approximately 30,000 amputations performed in the Civil War there was a 26.3-percent mortality rate. In the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, despite the lessons learned in the Civil War and the ...

Dublin, 29 May 1923 - The long running Irish Civil War seems to have come to an end. An order to dump all arms has been issued by Mr. Frank Aiken, Chief of Staff, to his anti-treaty forces.

A Philadelphia physician coined the phrase "phantom limb" shortly after the Civil War, when thousands of ... "What do you do with amputated arms?" They replied, "We send them either to the ...

Scholars often depict the American Civil War as an early watershed. Amputations were the most ... how to cut the body to ...