Spinal Anesthesia
![A doctor performs a spinal tap A doctor performs a spinal tap](/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/art/exhibits/conflicts-and-operations/wwii/navy-medical-art-of-the-abbott-collection/spina-anesthesia/_jcr_content/mediaitem/image.img.jpg/1485982457963.jpg)
The operating room of a large Navy ship is little different than those in our most modern hospitals. This man is being anesthetized spinally before the setting of a compound fracture suffered when he fell forty feet down a hatch.
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Wars & Conflicts
- World War II 1939-1945
Navy Communities
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