This is how amputation was performed in 1805

Keep in mind that there was much if any sanitation --- no wound or hands or instruments washing !!!
In homes turned into makeshift hospitals -- sacks were tied out the window & the limbs were thrown in them.
A soldier had a better chance of 'living' IF on the battlefield then they did in a 'field
hospital '. But to be fair-- the doctor's & those who helped in the field hospitals or home make shift hospitals did the best they could with the little they had to work with.

bruhh just let me die please 😅

Why is no one talking about i5 being sent to the ships cook omg

Felt so many pain watching this. People of that era literally suffered beyond words and still lived. I won't wish to be born in that era again .

Listen I do not have a weak stomach but this detailed and clear illustration made me stop eating my lunch 😂

Sorry? Send what to the ship's cook?

😐👍

I almost passed out just now

Hold the f up. Did u just say they sent the leftover leg the the ship’s cook???? 😮

...just looking for the other people who heard that last part....about sending it off to the cook...🤕😟

My word!😳

Let’s take a moment to thank the founder of anesthesia, William TG Morton

Ship's cook!! Did he say...? 🤢🤮

Wow we are lucky to be born in this era!

Um… how come im not seeing any comments about dude saying “if it’s found fit enough, itd be sent to the ship’s cook.” as my guy is patting the severed limb😮

Whoa. Insanity what people used to have to go through!

So they will gulliotine the leg if its still attached?

And women say only they suffered since the ancient times.

Is it just me or does this make me very uncomfortable.

The only good side of things about this is you'd probably pass out from the pain shock fairly quickly.

Jesus mary mother of christ, you'd be in so much pain hes so casual telling you poor people back then

They had opium

Dammit man! Nothing nice about it!

Unless you died of infection first 😢

I’m sorry sent to whose cook?! 😮

“And if it was found fit enough, it was sent to the ships cook.” … nice

Could be worse,Robert Liston's most notorious surgery yielded 300% mortality rate

I couldn't handle that pain, no way. I'd vomit from the pain, then die from shock, probably 😐 (yes, I'm female & we didn't usually fight in battle, just imagining the pain & process is all that's in my brain atm... poor guys! )

Is this why so many pirates had peg legs lol

I can't even stand to watch! 😱

Ok,OUCH!!!

Wow……..

Doctor Barbers were a real thing btw… poor fucker probably had his beard trimmed with the same knife right after surgery while he was drunk off his ass

Wait.. the ships cook!?!?! Say more… I need more words. For… for like… who is eating human legs??

"sent off to the ship's cook" 💀

I assume the patient would have passed out before the amputation was complete

Like Trump himself said: Can't fix stupid! Idiocracy is a documentary.

Wait wait what?! The cook. 😮

Uh am I the only one to catch the ships cook part? Wtf

Wait, did he say it would be sent off to the ship’s cook???

Would getting really drunk help

This hurts to watch…

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

they would give alcohol to drink to some wat dull the pain or they wud pass out from the pain or die from the pain either way it all sucked to survive a musket shot

Coming up in a time when lidocaine was not even around, just kill me 💀😂

I've heard that this is almost as painful as being unfollowed on Instagram

IF they were a really good surgeon they would have left a big flap of skin dangling so they could use it to cover the wound.

I’m sorry… you just literally tied off their veins?… 🤯

Gonna call my mother and thank her for not giving birth to me 200 years earlier. Goddamn...