Fisher JR/SR High School
8-2
This is my civil war project page that contains my Science, English, and Social Studies projects.
Table of Contents
Science Project
Anesthesia
Language Projects
"He Died at His Post"
News Paper Artical
Social Studies Project
Surgeon's Kit
This is my science report on Anesthesia.
Anesthesia
Each type of anesthesia has an effect on a part of the nervous system, which results in a depression or numbing of nerve pathways. General anesthesia affects the brain cells, which causes you to lose consciousness. Regional anesthesia has an effect on a large bundle of nerves to a particular area of the body, which results in losing sensation to that area without affecting your level of consciousness.
When anesthesia was first introduced, numerous techniques were used to dull sensation for surgery. Soporifics and narcotics were prepared from a wide range of plants, including marijuana, belladonna and jimsonweed. Healers attempted to induce a psychological state of anesthesia by mesmerism or hypnosis. Rubbing the patient with counterirritants such as stinging nettles could provide distraction. A direct but crude way of inducing a state of insensitivity was to knock the patient unconscious with a blow to the jaw. By 1846, opium and alcohol were the only agents that continued to be regarded to be practical value in diminishing the pain of operations. Unfortunately, the large doses of alcohol needed to produce stupefaction were likely to cause nausea, vomiting and death instead of sleep. Opium, while a strong analgesic, had significant side effects itself and was typically not powerful enough to completely blunt a surgical stimulus.
During the Civil War anesthesia played a great part in surgery. By being able to ease the patient's pain, the amount of problems the surgeon had to deal with was lower. When a patient had to have a limb amputated, anesthesia greatly aided in the fight against the pain.
This is a Picture of one of the first operations while using ether.
These are my English projects.
"He Died at His Post"
"He Died at His Post" was the poem that I chose. This poem, written in Third Person, was written about the death of Amos M. Travis a resident of Poughkeepsie, New York. Travis served in Company E, 30th of New York, and was mortally wounded at Antietam along with his captain, Harrison Holliday, a prominent citizen of Poughkeepsie. The verses of this poem were sung at Travis's funeral.
A soldier had fallen! 'Tis well that we weep!
O soft be his pillow, and peaceful his sleep!
Far, far from his home, and the friends he loved most,
He fell in the conflict, and died at his post.
When brave ones were summoned their country to save,
He hasted war's perils to share with the brave,
And proudly he stood in the van of the host,
And, like his Great Captain, he died at his post.
No more shall earth's conflicts disturb his repose,
He has gone where the weary are free from life's woes;
There covered with glory, on Eden's bright coast,
'Twill be sweet to remember he died at his post.
Farewell youthful soldier! we ne'er will forget,
The life thou has offered, the death thou has met!
Of thee may our nation in history boast;
And tell the whole world, thou didst die at thy post.
A soldier has fallen; but long shall remain
The star-spangled flag which he died to sustain;
For, sooner than let our loved country be lost,
A nation of freemen will die at their post!
In the beginning of the poem a man has died and he has gone to a better place. Throughout the poem the soldier will not be forgotten. And in the end many people will die to protect their country.
A soldier had fallen! 'Tis well that we weep! Throughout the poem imagery of a fallen soldier is seen.
The rhyme scheme of this poem is simple, the first and second lines rhyme and then the third and fourth also rhyme.
The rhythm in this poem is a basic beat of stressed, unstressed continuously.
Poem and information about this poem was found at these URL's
http://users.erols.com/kfraser/hediedathispost.html
Http://users.erols.com/kfraser/
The article I chose was "Arrest of Cook". This article appeared in the Stannton Spectator on the second page on the first day of November 1859.
Check out this article and other articles.
The reason I chose this article is that it was one of the only ones I could read. I found this article by using ask.com.
This article is about the notorious Captain Cook and of course his arrest. Captain Cook was part of a band of outlaws that was known before the Civil War.
This is my Social Studies project on a surgeons kit!
The Surgeon's Kit
The surgeons kit of today is almost totally different but with the same intentions in mind like slit the skin to begin surgery. But the surgeon kit of the Civil War was much more simple and probably more painfully. With the bone saw basically a butcher knife with teeth it was probably an experience that one didn't want to deal with. Today doctors use a scalpel to cut you open instead of the mini ax used during the Civil War. And instead of using ether to knock you out doctors now use an injectable liquid to ease your pain.
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