The Most battles in the Civil War were

fought in Virginia.
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Malaria is transmitted
by Mosquitoes

• 70% OF ALL PROJECTILE WOUNDS INVOLVED ARMS, THIGHS, LEGS, HANDS, AND FEET
• MALARIA WAS PRESENT DURING THE CIVIL WAR KILLING AROUND 30,000 SOLDIERS
 DISEASES
THERE WERE MANY DISEASES IN THE CIVIL WAR SUCH AS…

Tetanus Srocoptes Scabiei Typhoid Pneumonia Tuberculosis

There were many more disease

in the Civil War than this.
 DISEASE FACTS
2/3 of the soldiers who fought in the war died by disease

Armory Square Hospital in Surgeons did not learn about It is estimated that for every battlefield death, the South
Washington, DC the germ theory until at least lost three times the number of men to diseases
20 years later
 MEDICS

Original hypodermic syringe The original hypodermic syringe was The hypodermic syringe
invented by Dr. Alexander Wood in 1853. used today
 MEDIC FACTS

Surgeons held bloody knifes in their teeth Dr. W. W. Keen Said, "It was way safer to Northern medical schools were
while working and did not wash their tools fight through the three--day Gettysburg considered the best in the nation.
battles than have a limb amputated or a
compound fracture.”
 AMPUTATIONS
There were three main ways to do amputations

• Circular Amputation
• Flap Amputation
• Oval Amputation

Surgeons had many

different saws to cut bone.
CIRCULAR AMPUTATIONS
Surgeons quickly cut bone and tissue,
then covered it so it would scab

During the amputation the patient

rarely died by blood loss, they died
by shock and pain.

If they had many soldiers who

needed treatment they would do
the circular amputations because it
was the fastest
FLAP AMPUTATION
There is two different kinds of
the flap amputation.
The single flap amputation was used for
amputations below the knee.
The double flap amputation is used for
amputation was used for grasping and
raising the interior of the skin and
muscle from the bone
When surgeons had more time they would
sew on skin and make a rounded stump
 PROTECTION

There was 2,128,940 There was 1,082,119 Doctors usually did not
10,000 surgeons served
soldiers for the Union soldiers who fought for wear gloves but if they
in the Union army
the Confederate did they were leather.
4,000 served in the
Confederate
 CONCLUSIONS

• MORE SOLDIERS DIED BY DISEASE THAN COMBAT

• APPROXIMATELY 620,000 SOLDIERS DIED FROM COMBAT, ACCIDENT, STARVATION, AND DISEASE DURING
THE CIVIL WAR
• THERE WERE ABOUT 60,000 SOLDIERS THAT WERE AMPUTATIONS
 CITATIONS
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