medicine in the civil war

this is my game for a history project it is very rough and janky because i did this in like a week. The buttons ONLY WORK IN FULLSCREEN!!! so beware you can also read the scrolls below

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1:anesthesia

The idea of chloroform as anesthesia made by james young simpson in 1840 it was especially good because they were able to knock out patients for an extended period of time without injuring the patient it was safer then its counterpart ether which was flammable.

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2: Lincoln's death

Charles Leale was the first to respond upon Lincoln's Assassination. there was large clot of blood in occipital bone in the back of the skull." This was the entry point of the bullet. Leale used his finger to open up the blood clot. He knew that Abraham Lincoln would not survive this injury.

3:diseases

The 1800s was not a very clean place. Lots of camps had diseases like typhoid, dysentery, and malaria. Quinine was considered a miracle drug because at the time it cured malaria quickly. Most soldiers couldn't clean or wash themselves during the war. These diseases were so common that around 750000 deaths were because of it.

4:amputation

Amputation was very common and humane. Most people survived these surgeries. The reason that amputation was so common was because most bullets were huge, meaning it was easier to remove an arm than fix the injury. 

5:weapons 

Muskets use a big ball and gunpowder for ammo. Newly made guns used traditional ammo like the 40-70 such as the sharps rifle. Some can argue that muskets were less humane than using revolvers or new rifles. The muskets that were used forced them to improve healing systems thus shaping America's health system today