Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Historian Dan Snow meets Kevin Goodman to learn how battlefield surgery progresses in the 18th and 19th centuries through the Napoleonic War, American Civil War and American Indian Wars. Could medicine keep up with wars now fought on an industrial scale?
0:25 Intro
1:47 18th Century advancements
5:29 Bloodletting
6:57 Amputation
8:52 Acid
10:12 Amputation demonstration
13:46 Maggots
15:10 Bigger weapons
16:47 Extracting a Minie ball
19:23 Carbolic acid
21:16 arrow removal
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Historian Dan Snow meets Kevin Goodman to learn how battlefield surgery progresses in the 18th and 19th centuries through the Napoleonic War, American Civil War and American Indian Wars. Could medicine keep up with wars now fought on an industrial scale?
0:25 Intro
1:47 18th Century advancements
5:29 Bloodletting
6:57 Amputation
8:52 Acid
10:12 Amputation demonstration
13:46 Maggots
15:10 Bigger weapons
16:47 Extracting a Minie ball
19:23 Carbolic acid
21:16 arrow removal
You can now become a History Hit member right here on YouTube! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more. Get an exclusive release every week by signing up here: bit.ly/45Y4Oyg
#historyhit #napoleonicwars #battleofwaterloo
