Medicine, amputations, prisoners

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During the civil war, the two sides often

• exchanged captured prisoners

• excecuted prinsoners all the time

• freed prisoners immediatly

• sent prisoners to canada

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The most common way of treating a gunshot wound to a leg or arm was

• Amputation

• finding the bullet and removing it.

• Removing the broken bone part and then shortening the other leg to compensate

• Leaving the bullet in the soldier as a lifetime "souvenier."

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Most soldiers in the civil war died of

• head wounds

• chest wounds

• disease

• loneliness

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Civil War medicine was

• very primitive compared to medical care at the time.

• based on superstition

• The best care available up to that time and based on what knowledge existed at the time

• Worse than care during the revolution

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When a soldier was wounded, the biggest risk was

• infection

• bleeding to death

• extreme pain

• getting captured

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Most civil war surgeries involved the use of

• Lasers

• whiskey to numb the pain

• holistic treatments

• anesthetics