Carving a Path Forward: Trauma, Disability, and Resilience in 19th-Century Europe
In the brutal lexicon of nineteenth-century warfare, a shattered limb was almost universally understood as a death sentence. To be struck by artillery on a muddy, foreign road meant facing a grim and terrifying arithmetic: if the initial shock and catastrophic blood loss did not claim your life, the crude, unsterilized saws of the field surgeons or the inevitable onset of infection certainly...