The October meeting featured Capt. Donald Levick, MD - XIth Corps, Medical Division talking about the responsibilities of a Union Civil War Surgeon from various perspectives: as a Field Surgeon early in the war and as a Head Surgeon at Spangler Farm Field Hospital in Gettysburg.
It was a fascinating look at Civil War medicine and how it evelved in the four years of fighting from first aid stations on the field, to surgeries in field hospitals and the care taken to allow for prostetic devices following the war - all while averaging just minutes per patient!!
Captain Levick demonstrated the medical instruments and surgical techniques that were in use during the war; and spoke about anesthesia, disease and germ theory, as well as overall morbidity / mortality statistics.
As usual we also held our monthly preservation book raffle.
The Brigade Commander reminded all that the November meeting will be the SECOND Tuesday due to the presidential election.
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