[DOC] [TLE] Civil War Battlefield Surgery | eHISTORY [PAR] The most common Civil War surgery was the amputation. ... Still the Civil War 
surgeon suffers from being called a butcher or some other derisive term. ... A 
surgeon recalled: "We operated in old blood-stained and often pus-stained coats, 
we used ... bone so badly, the doctors did not have much choice but to amputate 
a limb. [DOC] [TLE] Amputations in the Civil War | NCpedia [PAR] Jan 1, 2008 ... Surgeons often left amputations to heal by granulation. ... Amputation Kit used by 
Dr. Gordon (from the County Doctor Museum) ... Artificial limbs, especially legs, 
helped Civil War amputees get back to work to support .... and if you were lucky 
the surgeon wound wipe the tools off first before cutting of a limb. [DOC] [TLE] Amputation | Johns Hopkins Medicine Health Library [PAR] An amputation is the surgical removal of a all or part of an arm or leg due to injury
, infection, ... The most common reason for amputation is poor blood flow. [DOC] [TLE] Under the Knife - The New York Times [PAR] Nov 17, 2012 ... The grim reality of Civil War battlefield surgery. ... McGuire opened up the 
amputated limb to show the officers in the room ... common projectile, the large, 
oblong Mini ball, often tumbled when it ... Early in the war surgeons earned the 
nickname Saw-bones ... Disunion, Amputations, Doctors, The Civil War... [DOC] [TLE] Instruments & Techniques | Pennsylvania Civil War 150 [PAR] Often, the only way to save a soldier's life was amputation, cutting off the 
damaged limb. ... such as the condition called hospital gangrene, were very 
common, often ... arms outfitted with hooks and other tools were all developed to 
aid amputees. ... Street Hospital earned the nickname Stump Hospital due to 
the volume of... [DOC] [TLE] Civil war surgery: The grisly photos that show how wounded soldiers ... [PAR] Aug 1, 2011 ... Gruesome: Private George W. Lemon, who was shot in the leg at the 1864 ... 
Museum of Civil War Medicine show how fallen fighters often faced the ... A 
primitive amputation saw similar to one used by carpenters would have ... Open 
wide: This instrument is called a tooth key and was used for pulling teeth. [DOC] [TLE] 101 Interesting Facts about the Civil War - Random Facts [PAR] Jul 26, 2013 ... It's victor, General Meade, was born in Spain.d; The most common operation 
performed on soldiers ... The best surgeon could have a limb severed and 
discarded within five minutes. Civil War doctors were nicknamed sawbones. 
There were 60,000 partial or complete amputations during the war.h; Virginia... [DOC] [TLE] Anesthesia - Wikipedia [PAR] In the practice of medicine (especially surgery) and dentistry, anesthesia or 
anaesthesia is a ... One exception is a condition called long-term post-operative 
cognitive .... The most common approach to reach the endpoints of general 
anesthesia is .... An ineffective block is most often due to inadequate anxiolysis or 
sedation... [DOC] [TLE] Civil-War-era prosthetic leg used to replace a severed foot. "During ... [PAR] Amputation was the most common type of surgery done. A patient was 
administered an anesthesia, a new tool in the surgical arsenal. Then the skin and 
muscle... [DOC] [TLE] Regency Era Medical Practices - Kathleen Baldwin [PAR] Ever wondered what tools a surgeon used during the Regency era? ... you'll 
understand why they called surgeons by the ghastly nickname name, Sawbones. 
... They amputated limbs as quickly as possible but there was no anesthesia ... 
Leeching was so common in this era that doctors were often referred to as 
leeches. [DOC] [TLE] Club foot - Wikipedia [PAR] Club foot or clubfoot, also called Congenital Talipes Equinovarus (CTEV), is a 
congenital deformity involving one foot or both. The affected foot appears to have 
been rotated internally at the ankle. Without treatment, people with club feet often 
appear to walk on their ankles ... It is a relatively common birth defect, occurring 
in about one in every 1,000... [DOC] [TLE] Herbert Marshall - Wikipedia [PAR]

Question: Due to the commonplace amputation of limbs, a doctor or surgeon was often called this tool nickname
Answer: Sawbones