The challenging medical exam, which lasted anywhere from 4-7 days, consisted of a written examination on the basic principles of anatomy, surgery ... included amputation. Civil War physicians ...

Surgery was usually performed by physicians ... House Union Hospital major surgical procedures of the Civil War are performed. Amputations are emphasized, as it was the most common major operation.

Surgeons performed 60,000 amputations during the war, spending as little as three ... the spread of gunpowder warfare and the printing press. Surgery was a craftlearned through apprenticeship ...

Surgeons performed 60,000 amputations during the war, spending as little as three ... the spread of gunpowder warfare and the ...

plastic surgery, and amputations. Travelling across Ukraine has been tiring work for this group of veteran war surgeons. Their last destination is the front-line city of Kharkiv - battered by ...

Three are in Boston: Anas, who has undergone multiple painful skin grafts; Aser, who underwent corrective amputation surgery and is ... up with the news about the war triggers despair, guilt ...

The number of people in Ukraine requiring amputations since Russia's invasion has risen to levels not seen since World War I, according to The Wall St Journal. Russia's heavy use of missiles and ...

Another two died after surgery - including a young child. Victor says many were life-threatening injuries, which he lists as "amputations ... it would amount to a war crime.

Ms. Jones, a successful post-World War II actress, distinguished her later life with her ... He was professor emeritus of surgery at Northwestern and former vice chair of the surgery department at ...

When someone has a severe traumatic injury, the first ten minutes are key to saving lives. In Gaza, as in other contexts with ...

North Gaza is the centre of a renewed Israeli offensive that over the past five weeks has unleashed some of the Israeli ...