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Mending Broken Soldiers: The Union and Confederate Programs To Supply Artificial Limbs
By Hasegawa, Guy R.
- ISBN
- 978-0-80933-130-7
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois Univ. Press
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Reviewed on September 15, 2012 | Health & Medicine
During the bloodiest war the United States has ever fought, Union and Confederate soldiers suffered an estimated 60,000 amputations. Approximately 75 percent of them survived surgery to return to their civilian lives. Pharmacist and amateur historian of Civil War medicine Hasegawa (coeditor, with James M. Schmidt, Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine) has done extensive research on th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
