Re: [DL] Re: Colt Walker

[Steve Wallace <ceesrw@yahoo.com>]

>          Two quick clarifications, if I may:
> 
>          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.

Yeah, that could do with clarification, couldn't it. 
I might actually manage to update my site...  

Cheers,
Steve Wallace

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