Step onto the blood-soaked battlefields of the 19th century, where surviving a cannonball often meant facing the horrors of an unequipped field hospital. From grueling Civil War amputations to the shocking use of maggots, discover why military medicine was essentially a death sentence. But this documentary goes beyond the 1800s. We also journey back to the Tudor era and the brutal English Civil Wars to uncover primitive musket ball extractions, horrific skull trepanning, and the slow, painful evolution of surgical science before the discovery of germs.
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