Exhibit Reveals Curious, Gruesome Civil War Medicine

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Exhibit Reveals Curious, Gruesome Civil War Medicine


By DON OLDENBURG
The Washington Post

LINTHICUM, Md. (AP) - At a cocktail reception to open "Civil War Medicine," a new exhibit at the ever-so-curious William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History, located in the Baltimore suburbs, onlookers quietly groan as a Civil War surgeon tosses a Union soldier's amputated arm into the piles of bloody body parts littering the floor.

Next, the doctor picks up a long, curved, silver instrument designed for very personal probing, and some of the men among the party guests get a woozy rush.

Robert Urban is demonstrating battlefield surgeries in the lobby of the American Urological Association headquarters in Linthicum in late June.

The soldier, a corpse-like dummy attired in a Union blue uniform, lies in a field hospital mock-up of the 23rd Pennsylvania Infantry. Wounded in the belly, he "can't go to the bathroom," says the goateed Urban, who isn't a real doctor - he just plays one in battlefield reenactments.

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[bicentennial_baby]

1. I'm going to the Museum of the History of Medicine in Paris!

I hear it's wicked gross, and i'm so excited! I love that stuff. :bounce:

[6th Borough]

2. B-F'ing Ware urologists! once they knock you out w/ gas on an operating

bed, that is.
Once the pass-out gas (and/or IV funny juice) kicks in, you'll never know what they will do to kill the free time before/after surgery.

On the positive side...I'm bladder cancer free!

Ughh.

[6th Borough]

3. BTW, if a urologist says he "scoped your penis", it's literal.

Hell, at least ear/nose/thorat docs spray you with some cocaine before they go digging.