Facts about Civil War medicine

Civil War medicine did not keep up with weapon technology of the day. This led to a huge amount of casualties during the war.

The North had a small advantage over the South when it came to medical technology, but only slightly. They were both equally bad.

As a soldier you did not ever want to become sick or wounded. Treatments given by doctors to their patients would more often than note create more problems than they fixed.

One Civil War medicine that was particularly harmful was mercury. It was seen as the cure all, no matter what was wrong with you mercury would usually be the answer. Of course back in those days they did not understand that mercury was in fact poisonous which caused severe side effects in the people it was given to such as brain damage, digestive disorders, and tooth loss.

One of the few treatments used during the war that actually helped patients was Chloroform. It was simply an anesthetic that was used to put patients to sleep so that surgeons good do their dirty work without a screaming patient fighting them. Luckily for surgeons and their patients there was enough of it to go around on both sides of the line.

The bone saw was probably the most well known piece of medical equipment during the war. This piece of equipment had only one job, amputation. Needless to say soldiers tried to avoid getting wounded in an arm or leg because they probably knew what was waiting for them if they did.

Amputations were wide spread but the simple reason was that surgeons had no other choice. They could not treat nor prevent infections that would inevitably take place after a soldier was wounded. The only prevention from infection was to amputate. Even this did not always work.

Amputations made up 75% of all field surgeries during the entire course of the Civil War.

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