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 ...
Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.
A reliable method to treat post-amputation pain remains elusive, but a new Northwestern Medicine study conducted in ...