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Civil War Anesthesia Wasn’t Just a Slug of Whiskey: Inside the New 19th-Century Science of Battlefield Painkillers

This article is from the February 2022 issue of America’s Civil War magazine. “‘See here, Doc, if you’re goin’ to take that leg off, you’d better be about it—I’m comin’ to.’ Those were the frustrated and possibly fearful words of a wounded soldier in the aftermath of the July 1863 Battle of Honey Springs. The unidentified soldier […]