"A Study in Suffering — How One Army Surgeon Captured..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Aug 2015 9:24 p.m. PST |
… the Painful Aftermath of Waterloo. "DOCTOR CHARLES BELL, a Scottish born military surgeon of the Napoleonic era, may not have been the best sawbones in the Wellington's army. In fact, his critics were quick to point out that 90 percent of wounded soldiers who went under his knife for amputations didn't survive the ordeal. Yet the Edinburgh physician still made a number of meaningful contributions in the realm of military medicine. A talented artist and anatomist, Bell used his keen eye and knowledge of the human body to create a visual record of the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo. Armed with a sketchpad and water colours, Bell, 41, produced a series of sobering and poignant images that captured the grisly havoc musket balls, sabres and cannon shot worked on living tissue…"
See here
link War is nasty!. Amicalement
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| dibble | 22 Aug 2015 11:08 a.m. PST |
Notice that they almost all have mustaches. link Paul :) |
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