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Medical and Surgical procedures!

Medical and Surgical procedures!. arli ummert & essica atchel. What you will learn!. You will be learning about the tools that they use to do medical procedures. We will also be talking about how they would perform the steps.

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Medical and Surgical procedures!

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  1. Medical and Surgical procedures! arli ummert & essica atchel

  2. What you will learn! • You will be learning about the tools that they use to do medical procedures. • We will also be talking about how they would perform the steps. • And also be talking about the different medicines they used to cure people.

  3. Myth or Fact?!? • In 1861 the sanitary commission report issued a widely disseminated, and included many guidelines to improve sanitation and reduced the disease’. • Three out of four wounds were to the extremities. In the Union Army, this led to 10,000 amputations.

  4. The men! • There was twice as many men that had died from diseases than they did from gunshots. • It was all measles, small pox, and many more other diseases that they have died from. • The prisoners had it even worse then the civil war who were held in the most miserable of conditions.

  5. The Sanitary Commission! • The Sanitary Commission tried to educate the army on proper sanitation techniques to help stop the spread of disease’. • In 1861 the sanitary commission report issued a widely disseminated, and included many guidelines to improve sanitation and reduced the disease’.

  6. Famous surgeons! • Dr. Edward Kittoe • Dr. Hartwell Carver Tompkins • Dr. Winslow Homer • Dr. John Shaw Billings

  7. Amputation! • Leg Amputation - Used a tourniquet, a saw, and a knife. • Below the knee amputation - Used a tourniquet, and a saw, and knife. • Arm Amputation - Used a tourniquet, a saw, and a knife. • Finger and toe amputation - Used a saw, a knife, and pliers.

  8. Facts about medicine! • Civil War medicine was in a time before the doctors even knew much about bacteriology and were ignorant of what caused disease. •   The medicines brought in to try and halt diseases were manufactured in the North for the most part; the Southerners had to deal with running the Union blockade.

  9. Facts about amputation! • Three out of four wounds were to the extremities. In the Union Army, this led to 30,000 amputations. • Of 11,000 Union physicians, 500 had performed surgery before. • The surgeon would scrape the end and edges of the bone smooth, so that they would not work back through the skin.

  10. Why it is important! • This is important because now we know what kind of medicines and tools that they used. • We all need to remember how much the medicine and tools that they used and how much we appreciate how much pain we don’t have to go through like they did.

  11. Work cited! • Hope you enjoyed our presentation! Thank you and have a nice day!! • http://www.mycivilwar.com/facts/info-medicine.htm#top • http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war-medicine.htm • http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=active&um=1&q=civil+war+amputations&sa=N&start=60&ndsp=20

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