Civil War Surgery

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Uploaded by on Nov 11, 2007

Civil War renactment to show attendees what battlefield surgery would be like. This operation was for someone with a gut wound.

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  • Who were the stupid shits that were laughing? I'd like to see them shot in the stomach and have they're guts falling out then they'd see who would be laughing...

  • yeah there kids and i think thats there dad? but you never know?

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  • Not bad, I've definetely seen worse

  • 1. They're kids

    2. It's fake

    3. Get a life

  • It would freak me out so much to watch this live even if I knew it was fake

  • that's no acting

  • I was the trooper on the ground next to be waited on(green shirt). The laughter should have been curtailed. I was yelling "whiskey" for my pain. Tallassee is an excellent event we attend. Gut wounds are seen as last ditch efforts as "triage" was formed during the CW, doing the most good to the most troops. Gut wounds require more supplies and time that was needed for more patients with lesser injuries. Amputations were a quick fix. Scary huh?

  • I am doing a project on Civil War medicine, and it said that since doctors don't know much about organs, and anyone with an abdominal wound would die, or if they're will favored, cut the cord. I read that in some states a doctor would be executed if he operated on the abdomen.

  • @zimpiko28 They could have at least shown some respect for the reenactors. I know it wasn't entirely authentic the way the soldier was released from the table and the way he plopped down on the ground, but still, the point stands.

  • Actually, speaking from actual medical expertise, he would have passed out from shock first, then he would have probably suffered internal bleeding throughout. Death would have been present within 24-hours. I only know this because I used to be an embalmer & I also served with the 71st California Infantry as a Surgeon Major.

  • maybe, possiblity that he would died, and he could lived as well. look how many photos had soldiers been shot with fragments and ect with small arms to cannon shells

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