Illness & Prisons
Featured Artifacts – A Soldier's Life
SUTURE,
Medal with
Twine
Used for stitching wounds.
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SCARIFICATOR
medical device was used to begin bloodletting and to introduce
medications to the body through wounds.
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CUPS, Bloodletting
These cups were used with the scarificator, a medical device was used
to begin bloodletting and to introduce
medications to the body through wounds.
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BOOKS, Autograph
Used by William A.
Mebane of Company F, 27th North Carolina Regiment while imprisioned at
Johnson's Island, Ohio. Entries include topics such as
boarding
the CSS Curlew,
a dying soldiers lament, and signatures of other prisoners.
Perquimans County
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