"The Truth About Civil War Surgery" Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Jan 2019 12:51 p.m. PST |
"Union Colonel Thomas Reynolds lay in a hospital bed after the July 1864 Battle of Peachtree Creek, Georgia. Gathered around him, surgeons discussed the possibility of amputating his wounded leg. The Irish-born Reynolds, hoping to sway the debate toward a conservative decision, pointed out that his wasn't any old leg, but an ‘imported leg.' Whether or not this indisputable claim influenced the doctors, Reynolds did get to keep his body intact. Compared to the many men who died because limbs should have been removed but weren't, Reynolds was lucky: he survived. ‘I have no hesitation in saying that far more lives were lost in refusal to amputate than by amputation,' wrote William Williams Keen, a medical student with the military status of a West Point cadet. Like many Civil War medical workers, Keen learned his trade on the job, under extreme duress, as Civil War battles churned out thousands of wounded men. After treating casualties of the September 1862 Battle of Antietam, Maryland, Keen went to work in Philadelphia at the Turner's Lane Hospital, a facility famous for making discoveries about nerve injuries. Later he became professor of surgery at the city's Jefferson Medical College and a leader in American surgery…."
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| skipper John | 21 Jan 2019 2:29 p.m. PST |
I was an apprentice and learned my trade by on the job training. I'm not so sure a Doctor should do the same though… |
| John the Greater | 21 Jan 2019 2:52 p.m. PST |
If you ever get to Frederick Maryland (near Antietam and Gettysburg and right next to Monocacy) I recommend a visit to the Museum of Civil War Medicine. |
Frederick  | 21 Jan 2019 4:47 p.m. PST |
Medical training was essentially an almost entirely apprentice system until the Flexner report as well as reforms proposed by Sir William Osler link Still an apprentice like flavour to some medical training, but overall much more organized than for almost all of recorded history! |
| donlowry | 22 Jan 2019 9:20 a.m. PST |
Every doctor needs practice. |
| Tango01 | 22 Jan 2019 11:58 a.m. PST |
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| Au pas de Charge | 22 Jan 2019 7:33 p.m. PST |
I understand that for it's time, Civil War surgery was cutting edge. |
| Tunniesterrain | 11 Mar 2019 9:41 a.m. PST |
Skipper John, up until the 1960's anaesthetists did not really exist as we know today and GP's would do theatre lists. That does not happen now! |
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