. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . PRAYER WITH THE WOUNDED AFTER SPOTSYLVANIAthe photographer of may, 1864, preserved a moment breath-ing the devout spirit of millets angelus. the surgeonsassistants, heads bared, and the nurse stand in reverentattitudes; the wounded lie listening on the ground; whileA chaplain pours cut a prayer to the almighty that thelives of the stricken soldiers before him may be ROUGH SURGERY IN THE FIELD This is war. The man in the foreground will never use his right arm again. Never again will the man onthe litter jump or run. It is
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . PRAYER WITH THE WOUNDED AFTER SPOTSYLVANIAthe photographer of may, 1864, preserved a moment breath-ing the devout spirit of millets angelus. the surgeonsassistants, heads bared, and the nurse stand in reverentattitudes; the wounded lie listening on the ground; whileA chaplain pours cut a prayer to the almighty that thelives of the stricken soldiers before him may be ROUGH SURGERY IN THE FIELD This is war. The man in the foreground will never use his right arm again. Never again will the man onthe litter jump or run. It is sudden, the transition from marching bravely at morning on two sound legs,grasping your rifle in two sturdy arms, to lying at nightfall under a tree with a member forever gone. Butit is war. The usual treatment of an ordinary wound during the Civil War consisted in shaving the partif necessary and washing it with warm water and a sponge. Asepsis was not yet understood. The sponge,used on any and all cases indiscriminately, soon became infected. Gross foreign bodies were removed and [ 252]
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