CSPAN3 American Artifacts Civil War Surgery Embalming July 13, 2024
During the very beginning of the war, like i say, maybe around 1860, there were a lot of quack surgeons in the union army. Well, dr. Letterman took over the medical corps. When he took over the medical corps, he devised the whole thing around. Now he created an ambulance corps where he could get the men off the battlefield quicker and faster. He also had to test the surgeons to be army qualified surgeons. Thats where it got better and better. 3 million fought in it, 600,000 died in it. 700,000 carry wounds off of that battlefield. So what happens there is what i was dealing with at that time w...