How vividly I recall my first operation - a simple amputation of the forearm in an army hospital in 1862. I was greatly alarmed after my very first incision lest the patient might bleed to death . . . I ended [the war] by being as little afraid of even the most furious hemorrhage as anyone could possibly be.
W. W. Keen, Union Army physician (via Learning from the Wounded, by Shauna Devine)







