Erschienen in:
07.07.2017 | ArtiFacts
ArtiFacts: Richard Satterlee’s Bone Saw
verfasst von:
Alan J. Hawk, BA
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 9/2017
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By December 1861, it had become painfully obvious that the US Civil War was going to be a long struggle, and it was equally apparent that amputation would be its signature surgical procedure. That same year, the Sanitary Commission, a private agency created during the Civil War to support sick and wounded soldiers, published a pamphlet on best practices for military medical care. “In army-practice, attempts to save a limb which might be perfectly successful in civil life, cannot be made… Conservative surgery is here an error; in order to save life, the limb must be sacrificed” [
15]. …