CIVIL WAR MEDICINE (Part the Second)

Union soldiers practice loading injured men into an ambulance.

In which we continue our discussion of medical issues affecting Civil War soldiers.  In this episode, we look at what happened to a soldier after he was wounded on the battlefield.

Our book recommendation for this episode is actually an article in the January 2009 issue of America’s Civil War. That article is titled “Life Is Better Than Limb” and posits that wartime amputations, while extreme, saved thousands of lives and helped spur the development of modern prosthetics.

Listen to Episode 62: CivilWarMedicinePartSecond