FYI OTL the provision of prosthetic limbs, and the periodic replacement of them, was a significant proportion of the money spent by the Army Medical Department for many decades after the Civil War. In the OTL postwar south, provision of limbs for Confederate amputees was handled by state governments, and in some cases often represented the single largest line item in a given years budget. Unfortunately the organized rehabilitation that we have seen where therapists work with amputees to teach ambulation, use of upper extremity prostheses, and what are called activities of daily living (ADLs) did not exist anywhere at the time of the ACW, this really became well organized during WWI although the roots were earlier.
OTL a CS officer who became an amputee early in the war founded an establishment to provide limbs, this sort of medical manufacture as well as production of medical instruments and standard drugs was essentially non-existent in the south, all such coming from the north or overseas previously. That company, J. E. Hanger & Co is still in business and is a major player in the field.
References can be supplied on this and other medical issues upon request.
OTL a CS officer who became an amputee early in the war founded an establishment to provide limbs, this sort of medical manufacture as well as production of medical instruments and standard drugs was essentially non-existent in the south, all such coming from the north or overseas previously. That company, J. E. Hanger & Co is still in business and is a major player in the field.
References can be supplied on this and other medical issues upon request.
