Medical Technology Advances “First the surgeon would cut off the blood flow with a tourniquet. After that he would take a scalpel and slice through the outlying tissue and flesh. Then he would use a hacksaw-like tool called a capital saw to saw through the bone. It had replaceable blades. After the bone and flesh was all sliced off, the surgeon would take silk sutures in the North, and cotton sutures in the South, and …showed first 75 words of 1675 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1675 total…advances are the cause to lowering the casualty rates of war. Without the technology we have today in medicine the fatality numbers of a war for a war of tomorrow would be unbearable. Ironically war has helped medical technology become more advance in a shorter period of time because without war the pain, deaths, injury, and other problems faced would be unknown but because it is around fighting has helped shape medical technology. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**