Re: [DL] Re: Colt Walker

["Joseph C. Wolf" <coyote@net-link.net>]

"Mr. Christopher McGlothlin, M.Ed." wrote:

> At 04:22 PM 11/12/2001, Steve Wallace wrote:
> >If too much damage is done, a sawbones
> >will amputate the limb cleanly, before gangreen and
> >such set in.

>          Amputations were performed because a .58 ball leaves nothing worth
> saving on most limbs it strikes, and the procedures continued to be
> perfomed even after both sides developed effective treatments for gangrene.
>
> >   Many deaths in the Civil War were not caused by
> >gunshot wounds, but by doctors attempting to remove
> >limbs which had been pulverised by large caliber
> >bullets hitting the bone.
>
>          The amputations didn't kill; the trauma itself, blood loss,
> disease and infection were the real culprits.

In high school I remember watching a CW documentary in which a sawbones claimed
to be able to saw off one arm, one leg and a testicle in under a minute. Gives
whole-new meaning to the phrase "balls out" don't it?

>>Joseph

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