Muskets and medicine; or, Army life in the sixties . ssthan eighty thousand (80,000) instances. Chloroformwas the favorite anesthetic with the Civil War surgeon,principally from the fact that it acted promptly and thepatient recovered quickly from its effects, which wereseldom other than agreeable. It was the anesthetic usedin fully 75 per cent, of cases. Ether was used in aboutone case in ten, and a mixture of chloroform and etherin one case in fifteen. Thirty-seven deaths resulted after chloroform inhala-tion and four followed the use of ether. Tetanus. There were five hundred and five (505)
Muskets and medicine; or, Army life in the sixties . ssthan eighty thousand (80,000) instances. Chloroformwas the favorite anesthetic with the Civil War surgeon,principally from the fact that it acted promptly and thepatient recovered quickly from its effects, which wereseldom other than agreeable. It was the anesthetic usedin fully 75 per cent, of cases. Ether was used in aboutone case in ten, and a mixture of chloroform and etherin one case in fifteen. Thirty-seven deaths resulted after chloroform inhala-tion and four followed the use of ether. Tetanus. There were five hundred and five (505) cases oftetanus, a Y&ry small proportion, when it is recalled thattwo hundred and forty-six thousand seven hundred andtwelve (246,712) injuries were inflicted on Union sol-diers by fire-arms. In other words, tetanus occurred asa complication only about twice in one thousand wounds. Gangrene. During the Civil War there were two thousand sixhundred and forty-two (2642) cases of gangrene which,from its prevalence in hospitals, was called hospital. Private T. W. January, who amputated his own feet.
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