CSPAN3 American Artifacts Civil War Surgery Embalming July 13, 2024
And embalmer. During the very beginning of the store, the war, there was a lot of quack surgeons in the union army. When a general took over the medical corps, he devised the whole thing around. He created an ambulance corps so we could get men off the battle quicker. He had the surgeons do tests to be army qualified. Thats where it got better. 3 million fought, 600,000 died. 700,000 wounds on that battlefield. What i was dealing with at that time was the musket. It went in like a finger and came out like a fist. It shattered the bone so bad, there was no way i could repair it. Even today, the...