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 ...

Where did that idea come from? Scholars often depict the American Civil War as an early watershed. Amputations were the most common operation of the war, and an entire prosthetic industry ...

amputee soldiers still on active duty — men who returned to combat out of a sense of duty amid the grim outlook for their country. They are among Ukraine’s 380,000 war wounded, according to ...

(Evgeniy Maloletka/AP) They are among Ukraine’s 380,000 war wounded, according to President ... recovered and learned to live with a full-arm amputation. When he decided to return to the ...

Nevertheless, while not a common procedure, Civil War physicians did attempt a few ... which sometimes followed flesh wounds of the extremities or amputations. "... A single bubble of air ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast ... D.E.S.” Sickles visited his leg yearly on the anniversary of its emancipation. Amputation ...