Transcript Medical and Surgical procedures!

Medical and Surgical
procedures!
arli
essica
&
ummert
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.
• And also be talking about the different
medicines they used to cure people.
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.
The men!
• There was twice as many men that had died
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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.
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’.
Famous surgeons!
• Dr. Edward Kittoe
• Dr. Hartwell Carver Tompkins
• Dr. Winslow Homer
• Dr. John Shaw Billings
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.
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.
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.
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.
Work cited!
• Hope you enjoyed our presentation! Thank you
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and have a nice day!!
http://www.mycivilwar.com/facts/infomedicine.htm#top
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civi
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