Where did that idea come from? Scholars often depict the American Civil War as an early watershed. Amputations were the most common operation of the war, and an entire prosthetic industry ...

Editor's Note: Dr. Shauna Devine is a historian of Civil War and American medicine ... if serious infection had time to develop, an amputation would still be required but would be essentially ...

It begs the questions—how common were blood transfusions during the American Civil War? And, when did the ... flesh wounds of the extremities or amputations. "... A single bubble of air ...

Amputations were ... with the portrayal of race in American history and what it is meant to accomplish. Christopher Markus and Steve McFeely, of Captain America: Civil War and the next Avengers ...