Medical Tools
This is a set of medical tools used in the Civil War, as you can see many tools were used. The tools that surgeons used varied from unit to unit, they were often required to bring their own surgical kits. These kits had the following basic tools- Scalpels, amputation knives, various amputation saws, bullet probes and extractors. These are the most often used tools.
If an instrument fell on the floor it was washed and squeezed in a basin of water. Leading to many diseases and infections since the instrument was not properly washed. Most of the time the surgeons would not bother to even wash the instrument.
This is a bottle of Chloroform used in the Civil War. Chloroform was used to reduce the pain of an operation, it was one of the few surgical anesthesia that existed back then along with Ether.