Where did that idea come from? Scholars often depict the American Civil War as an early watershed. Amputations were the most common operation of the war, and an entire prosthetic industry ...

Editor's Note: Dr. Shauna Devine is a historian of Civil War and American medicine ... if serious infection had time to develop, an amputation would still be required but would be essentially ...

The human body today has many replaceable parts, ranging from artificial hearts to myoelectric feet. What makes this possible ...

It begs the questions—how common were blood transfusions during the American Civil War? And, when did the ... flesh wounds of the extremities or amputations. "... A single bubble of air ...