Surgical tools used during the Civil War

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• Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’d be better off dead than to face treatment with any of this stuff

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  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Surgical tech here! …we still use most of that. The bone saws in our amputation sets look exactly like the ones in the OP. Granted, they’re stored and processed a bit differently today!

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• androidul@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ruh-roh!

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• billbasher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wanna know what that lil axe thing is for

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  • Junkernaught@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No you don’t.

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• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bullet to the leg? Amputation.
  Gangrene setting in? Amputation.
  Cough? Amputation.

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