Shirley Eugest@zl2tod@mastodon.online @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
I think they mostly used ammonia. That would create a sharp intake of breath!
AI6YR Ben@EugestShirley@m.ai6yr.org @zl2tod@mastodon.online I'm confused, why smelling salts?!
Shirley Eugest@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @zl2tod@mastodon.online
Wait until you find out how they made bandages. This was before germ theory.
https://civilwarrx.blogspot.com/2015/03/civil-war-bandages-lint-and-charpie-its.html
AI6YR Ben@EugestShirley@m.ai6yr.org @zl2tod@mastodon.online Wow, no wonder they amputated so many limbs
zl2tod@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
Amputation was the best chance against infection before antibiotics.
Lint is called muka in Maori, and was the basis of assumedly independently developed weaving technology.
I first saw kuia scraping flax with oyster shells almost sixty years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWbOSqI2Nj8
@EugestShirley@m.ai6yr.org
Stumpy The Mutt@zl2tod@mastodon.online @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @EugestShirley@m.ai6yr.org If you're referring to wound treatment during the American Civil War, it really wasn't. Getting hit by a slow-moving .58" chunk of lead was a lot like today's wounds delivered by IEDs. It literally destroys the limb it hits - nothing at all like a wound from a NATO 5.56x45 bullet. The Army medical people actually did research into ACW amputations at places like the National Museum of Civil War Medicine.
https://www.civilwarmed.org/