Illness & Prisons

Featured Artifacts – A Soldier's Life


SUTURE, Medal with Twine
Used for stitching wounds.

SCARIFICATOR
medical device was used to begin bloodletting and to introduce medications to the body through wounds.




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.

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