I can't Imagine!!!

[PondPopper]

On display at Baylor St.Lukes in Houston. To heck with living "back in the day"!!!!!



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[Txbownut]

"Whiskey not included"

[Jerry H]

They don't call them saw bones for nothing

[PondPopper]

I can't Imagine!!!

I guess a person had to be tuff.


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[okrattler]

Son of a buck! That's awful.

[Skinny]

Back then they didn't know of modern medicine. It was not even in their realm of imagination. Live or die...two options. Saw or not...the other two options.

[Gherkin05]

We have my grandfathers saw and medical bag. He had to use it more than he cared to share while following Patton through Italy. He was an Army combat surgeon.


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[PondPopper]

We have my grandfathers saw and medical bag. He had to use it more than he cared to share while following Patton through Italy. He was an Army combat surgeon.


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Dangit.....

[jerp]

One of the books I read about the Civil War had a chapter on battlefield medicine of the time - pretty horrifying. If you were lucky the doc had chloroform to knock you out - if not they got a couple orderlies to hold you down then started cutting. They didn't have a good understanding of germs or how infections were spread so even if a limb had gangrene they would saw it off then go to the next patient without even cleaning the scalpel or saw. Thousands must have died from infection spread by medical instruments.

[dustoffer]

jerp--I'm sure lots died from secondary infections, but remember, these were tough-as-nails farm boys, and city boys too. No AC, no hot runining water---they had had most "germs" before they were teens and had become immune to many of them.

Still, I've seen some battlefield pics from the Civil War, and the ones of amputated limbs piled--yes piled--outside the tents are tough to look at.

[MadHatter]

One of the books I read about the Civil War had a chapter on battlefield medicine of the time - pretty horrifying. If you were lucky the doc had chloroform to knock you out - if not they got a couple orderlies to hold you down then started cutting. They didn't have a good understanding of germs or how infections were spread so even if a limb had gangrene they would saw it off then go to the next patient without even cleaning the scalpel or saw. Thousands must have died from infection spread by medical instruments.

I've also read a little about it. The faster a Doc could saw your limb off, the better he was. Some of them could go through a limb insanely fast!! In a few instances orderlies/nurse had their arms, fingers, etc.. cut, as the docs blade literally flew through the patients arm, leg, etc..
We were some tough sum bucks back then though.

[jerp]

jerp--I'm sure lots died from secondary infections, but remember, these were tough-as-nails farm boys, and city boys too. No AC, no hot runining water---they had had most "germs" before they were teens and had become immune to many of them.

Still, I've seen some battlefield pics from the Civil War, and the ones of amputated limbs piled--yes piled--outside the tents are tough to look at.

You are probably right - immune systems were much stronger before we started raising kids in an over-sterilized environment.

[PondPopper]

I've also read a little about it. The faster a Doc could saw your limb off, the better he was. Some of them could go through a limb insanely fast!! In a few instances orderlies/nurse had their arms, fingers, etc.. cut, as the docs blade literally flew through the patients arm, leg, etc..

We were some tough sum bucks back then though.

Yep. Dangit man.



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[Mayhem]

Where the term saw bones came from.


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