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Entry tags:
Writing injuries, medical things and treatments
Some basics:
History of Medicine Timeline and a second one
History of Blood Banking and Bloodletting (wayback machine link)
Phisick Medical Antiques - "Phisick illustrates a history of medicine through a selection of antique instruments used over the years by doctors, physicians, barber surgeons, dentists, apothecaries and their patients." (wayback machine link)
Early history of wound treatment (pdf of article from the Royal Society of Medicine Press)
Updated CPR with hands only - rescue breathing is no longer taught, however the change is recent and many places still advocate the old way. An interesting write about CPR's history and some of its changes through time can be found here.
How to set a broken bone
Heatstroke vs heat exhaustion infographic and info
Chart showing temperature and windchill and when frostbite will set in (wayback machine link)
Writing Reference: Frostbite
Hypothermia symptoms, prevention, timelines, charts and more
hypothermia info, some more on hypothermia, even more, and warning signs "watching your umbles" (describes its stages and its effect on the body, wayback machine link) and also how best to heat up a hypothermic person with your own body heat
What to do if you fall through the ice (Educational video from the Discovery Channel (Canada) that teaches you what to do if you fall through the ice while fishing, skiing, etc.) and shorter demo on what to do if you fall through the ice
Article detailing how long you can survive in freezing water and a second article
The Cold Truth - article delving into the relationship between hypothermia and drownings (includes symptoms, reactions and discusses a real case)
The Changing Colors of Bruises and What They Mean and another article on bruise colors and their formation and amazing picture progression of healing bruises (on a thigh, very SFW)
Information on Burns
Information on burns: classification and treatment
Electrocution, Electric Shocks and the Electric Chair (wayback machine link)
What to do for someone who'd been electrocuted (wayback machine link)
Fevers and how to treat them
How to treat a fever correctly and natural home remedies
Example of a low-key primary assessment (from Daredevil- Claire checking Matt Murdock, gifset+explanation)
What Are the Limits of Human Survival? - radiation, elevation, acceleration, environmental limits and more.
1930's advice on treating a fever
OTC Meds of the Early 1900s
Writing Tips:
How to Injure Characters Without Killing Them a good article with specifics about blood loss, head injuries, and more
Tropes Done Right: Rendering Someone Unconscious and its counterpart BS Medical Tropes that Need to Die: Making People Unconscious
Chloroform doesn't work like Hollywood claims
Ether either although it does have some uses
Stop knocking characters out with tasers, it's not how they work (tumblr post explaining tasers and stun guns and how they work)
Tasers or using car battery/sponge to shock someone and how it works (wayback machine link)
Injury angst for writing dummies "a crash course on hospital life and emergencies for people who want authenticity."
Medical MacGyverisms (How to do medical stuff under less than ideal conditions, including delivering a baby)
Hospital Jargon (as explained by an American floor nurse)
Writing Realistic Injuries (with info on reactions to injury, minor injuries, head injuries, broken bones, dislocated joints, etc etc)
Breaking Your Character's Bones
Writing Advice - On Arrow Wounds
Writing Radiation Exposure and Poisoning
The Quick & Dirty Guide to Poisonings (wayback machine link)
How to Poison your Fictional Characters
10 Poisons Used To Kill People
A nurse describes what a heart attack feels like (and the snopes article confirming and commenting on it)
Describing what a collapsed lung feels like (wayback machine link)
Writing alcoholics and DTs
Why you never shock a flatline (the Doctor Grasshopper blog is no longer updated, but there's a lot of good information in it, especially in the useful posts tag)
Basic Guide to Writing a Code Blue and generally what hospitals do when a patient's heart has stopped. (wayback machine link)
Myths and tropes around defibrillation (including when to shock and when not to)
Writing Cardiac Arrest
Writing about burns (warning for graphic photos)
Writing Tips: Writing about blood loss, an infographic set
The Writer's Guide to Bleeding, Shock and Trauma part one (how much can be lost) and part 2 (stopping the bleeding)
EMTs vs Paramedics and also a typical trauma kit that an EMT might have (wayback machine link)
Treating a bullet wound in the field (and why leaving the bullet would actually be the right thing to do)
No really. Taking the bullet out does nothing to help the person (more on not removing the bullet)
Your Character’s Been Shot. Bullet In or Bullet Out? (some reasons behind removing vs leaving a bullet and symptoms that might result)
More on what might happen if a bullet isn't removed
Gun Shot Wounds Clinical look at the different kinds of wounds they cause and treatment (note- contains photos)
So You Want to Write an Outbreak Story- or epidemic or pandemic story, written by an EMT/RN based off their recent epidemiology class
Reference Guide to Writing Drug Withdrawal (tumblr post written by an RN)
Crafting Realistic Wounds In Fiction Blog Series: You Need to Know About Writing Stab Wounds, Everything You Need to Know About Writing Burns, Everything You Need to Know About Writing Gunshot Wounds, and Everything You Need to Know About Writing Bruises (series ongoing)
Info and Infographics on specific medical stuff/maladies:
Info on truth serum and more on truth serum
info and infograph on when CPR/shocking the heart should be done
vital signs and what they mean
how someone coming out of anesthesia might act
info on psych wards and hospitals
Info on US hospitals and their various units
Basic Home Nursing
The Glasgow Coma Scale
info on drug lifespans (especially useful for apocalyptic settings)
when and how to move an injured person
the process and technique of accessing an injured person
info on crush injuries
What Altitude and Depth Do to the Human Body
Details on fevers and how to write and treat them
What to know to write about a severe allergic reaction
Sepsis infographic
Carbon Monoxide poisoning sources and symptoms
More on carbon monoxide poisoning (specific to an episode of Timeless, but very useful overall)
Post with several infographics on the effects of sleep deprivation
Information regarding a pneumothorax (aka punctured lung) - what it is and how it's treated
Nerve Agent info - usage, effects, etc
Gunshot entry/exit wound infographic and an infographic that shows the different damage left by different bullets
Infographic set about Spinal Injuries
Quick and dirty guide to malnutrition, dehydration and sleep deprivation (wayback machine link)
The Devastating Effects That Sleep Deprivation Can Have on the Human Body
Writer's resource on basic wound care
Guide to Wound Closure (treating slashes and gashes when your characters can't/won't go in for professional treatment)
A Stitch in Time: Medical sutures now and in history Various historical ways of closing wounds (including ant bites) through today, including videos on how to do stitches (demonstrated on bananas)
General wound care info: Avoid using all alcohols (either drinkable or rubbing alcohol) hydrogen peroxide, or iodine as they're more likely to damage tissue then help. (source 1, 2 and 3) Instead, flush it with water or a sterile saline solution. (Interestingly, it's been proven sugar works well in accelerating and aiding in healing (source 1, 2, and 3).) Then wrap the wound with clean bandages.
More specifics:
Writing about pain (wayback machine link)
An E.R. Kicks the Habit of Opioids for Pain (NYT article- describes opioid side effects, uses and what -sometime 'alternative'- options there are)
Traumatic Brain Injuries Guide (PDF- signs and symptoms list on page 2) and TBI danger signs (wayback machine links)
Injury Profiles: Concussion (terrific overview of injury, treatment and recovery)
Assessing and treating a head injury with field medicine (with examples from of an episode of Scorpion)
General information on concussions and treatment
What to expect from a concussion, symptomwise.
Drowning: Medical Asphyxia mechanics and signs of death by drowning (warning for a postmortem photo)
Drowning rarely looks like you think it does. See: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (wayback machine link), Decoding Distress And Drowning: Spotting The Difference, Summer Water Safety: How To Identify Swimmers in Trouble or see chapter three of The Red Cross's lifeguard manual for more (wayback machine link). As a note, I lifeguarded for many years (ages ago), feel free to ask for specifics. The entire lifeguard manual is available for downloading here if you are interested.
In rare cases secondary drowning or dry drownings are complications that can happen hours after a dunking/near drowning (Webmd's info and wisegeek's info about it)
Manuals/PDFs/etc:
Resources for writing medical emergencies in fiction (gdoc of 14 pages with infographics, charts, and data on all the basics)
Traumatic Injuries Writing Reference Sheet - "How to beat up your characters: 100 helpful links!" (gdoc)
Modern Medical Techniques (for the field medic, fairly technical)
US Army WWII First Aid Field Manual (pdf- very detailed and very good for writing about how to treat people without a lot of 'modern' supplies) There is also the website, WW2 US Medical Research Centre, which was "designed to offer an excellent research utility to anyone interested in WW2 United States Army Medical history."
Korean War First Aid For Soldiers manual (published March 1954)
US Army Medical Department Handbook Of Basic Nursing 1970
First Aid for Soldiers 1989 field manual (pdf)
Tactical Combat Casualty Care Manual (pdf, very dense but very informative with step-by-step procedures on how to do all kinds of interesting stuff like using a tourniquet, etc, in the field)
HUGE (and very dense) pdf on the principles and practical tools of crisis and emergency risk communication (CERC), 2014 edition.
Wound Assessment PDF by Wound Care Education Institute (wayback machine link)
Primary Surgery, the online edition of a medical textbook aimed at doctors working with limited resources in developing countries. (wayback machine link)
Where There Is No Doctor "The most widely-used health care manual for health workers, educators, and others involved in primary health care and health promotion around the world. Current edition includes updated information on malaria, HIV, and more." (this PDF and many others are available to download here like Where Women Have No Doctor and A Book for Midwives, many of which are available in other languages as well)
A Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness & Travel Medicine (PDF, wayback machine link)
Wilderness and Remote First Aid Emergency Reference Guide by Boy Scouts of America and American Red Cross (PDF)
Wilderness and Remote First Aid by the American Red Cross (PDF)
Weapons Effects Weapons and the injuries they cause and how/why they cause them (US Army Medical Department Center pdf, contains graphic photos, wayback machine link), for more detailed info: Emergency War Surgery 5th Edition (pdf or epub)
Riot Medicine a public domain book "to help street medics in the struggle for liberation, autonomy, and dignity for all." (available as a free pdf by author, seems to work best in firefox rather than chrome)
The ship captain's medical guide "Practical medical guidance for laymen (non-doctors) working on board a ship;" 22nd ed, 2014 PDF (wayback machine link) ( for comparison the 13th edition, 1901. (via archive.org))
The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments (PDF of textbook, chockfull of info on the nature of human physical boundaries, made available by author)
random but interesting:
Erowid, a site with thousands of drug users’ first hand experiences with hundreds of different substances (illegal, OTC, prescribed and more)
Drugsand.me an educational website with an interactive feature giving information on dosage, effects, interactions (and more) of various drugs sourced from peer-reviewed academic publications.
DrugCocktails Facts about mixing medicine, booze, and street drugs.
Infographic on the effects of different types of drugs on the body (physical, mental, behavior, etc with alcohol, opiates, marijuana etc) and a slightly different one (both by narconon international)
"A Treatise Concerning Leg Wounds and the Foolishness of the Concept of Continuing Combat after Receipt of the Same" (Wayback machine link) Where in two guys decide to see if adrenaline meant you really could keep fighting after being stabbed in the leg and wrote about their experiences. "What conclusions can be reached from the folly of our two friends? A number of lessons have sprung from this experience, not the least of which was a resolve by the participants to never embark upon such a foolish course of action again." (yes, good plan) "But the most important finding concerning this ghastly little experiment dealt with the pain of a thrust to the leg and its sapping of one's will and ability to continue fighting. An admittedly shallow puncture wound that touched no vital areas and caused no significant permanent muscle or tendon damage rendered a fighter completely defenseless for a matter of at least five seconds (more than enough time for his opponent to finish him) and both unwilling and unable to continue the contest once the shock had worn off. This was in spite of the rush of adrenaline that the wounded individual admitted was coursing through his system within seconds of the wound. The pain of the wound was not lessened in any way by a change from a standing to a sitting or to a prone position. The pain was ever present and it terminated the fight."
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macgyvermedical Fandom Medical is collecting all their informational posts, asks, and reviews into easily searchable googledocs. The link for the first five can be found here.
some sites to check for more info:
Patrick Kelly's History of Medicine youtube channel well researched videos on histories of medicines, diseases, treatments and more.
The human body systems interactive map of the 11 major organ systems of the human body
doctorfiction - "a real life MD diagnosing imaginary people" (began Dec 2018)
scriptmedic - Aunt Scripty - "A Medical Consultant for Writers" has lots of masterposts if looking for something in particular (no longer being updated)
scriptshrink - a blog focusing on how to write about mental illnesses (no longer being updated)
macgyvermedical - Fandom Medical's tumblr - run by an RN/EMT, very useful, be aware they changed their tumblr name so if a post links to previous posts, click the link then change the 'medicbaymax' part of the link to macgyvermedical (i.e. their (very useful) post on pain, https://medicbaymax.tumblr.com/post/147121798949/writing-pain-pt-1-what-it-is-and-how-it-works, becomes https://macgyvermedical.tumblr.com/post/147121798949/writing-pain-pt-1-what-it-is-and-how-it-works.)
The Survival Doctor "Survival Medicine for Disasters"
Medical Meta Masterposts (mostly "powerpoints" on things like blood loss, trauma, spinal injuries, medicines/drugs, death, etc)
Resource Posts "Wound Types and How to Treat Them" with lots of links
Cascade Hospital - "a resource website designed specifically to help fanfic and other fiction writers who want to make their stories more medically authentic" (long defunct site put together by fans of The Sentinel fandom, wayback machine link)
Emergency Medicine posts by Jim Macdonald - ranging in topics from burns to heart attacks to trauma these have good details you might be able to use in your fics.
Random Thoughts of an Urban Paramedic (wayback machine link, a Boston paramedic's blog and commentary on calls and experiences, now defunct)
The Amputee Coalition - For any resources regarding amputation you might need
There is also some information on medical treatments in other times in my historical links post.
Research and Resource Collected Links Masterpost
History of Medicine Timeline and a second one
History of Blood Banking and Bloodletting (wayback machine link)
Phisick Medical Antiques - "Phisick illustrates a history of medicine through a selection of antique instruments used over the years by doctors, physicians, barber surgeons, dentists, apothecaries and their patients." (wayback machine link)
Early history of wound treatment (pdf of article from the Royal Society of Medicine Press)
Updated CPR with hands only - rescue breathing is no longer taught, however the change is recent and many places still advocate the old way. An interesting write about CPR's history and some of its changes through time can be found here.
How to set a broken bone
Heatstroke vs heat exhaustion infographic and info
Chart showing temperature and windchill and when frostbite will set in (wayback machine link)
Writing Reference: Frostbite
Hypothermia symptoms, prevention, timelines, charts and more
hypothermia info, some more on hypothermia, even more, and warning signs "watching your umbles" (describes its stages and its effect on the body, wayback machine link) and also how best to heat up a hypothermic person with your own body heat
What to do if you fall through the ice (Educational video from the Discovery Channel (Canada) that teaches you what to do if you fall through the ice while fishing, skiing, etc.) and shorter demo on what to do if you fall through the ice
Article detailing how long you can survive in freezing water and a second article
The Cold Truth - article delving into the relationship between hypothermia and drownings (includes symptoms, reactions and discusses a real case)
The Changing Colors of Bruises and What They Mean and another article on bruise colors and their formation and amazing picture progression of healing bruises (on a thigh, very SFW)
Information on Burns
Information on burns: classification and treatment
Electrocution, Electric Shocks and the Electric Chair (wayback machine link)
What to do for someone who'd been electrocuted (wayback machine link)
Fevers and how to treat them
How to treat a fever correctly and natural home remedies
Example of a low-key primary assessment (from Daredevil- Claire checking Matt Murdock, gifset+explanation)
What Are the Limits of Human Survival? - radiation, elevation, acceleration, environmental limits and more.
1930's advice on treating a fever
OTC Meds of the Early 1900s
Writing Tips:
How to Injure Characters Without Killing Them a good article with specifics about blood loss, head injuries, and more
Tropes Done Right: Rendering Someone Unconscious and its counterpart BS Medical Tropes that Need to Die: Making People Unconscious
Chloroform doesn't work like Hollywood claims
Ether either although it does have some uses
Stop knocking characters out with tasers, it's not how they work (tumblr post explaining tasers and stun guns and how they work)
Tasers or using car battery/sponge to shock someone and how it works (wayback machine link)
Injury angst for writing dummies "a crash course on hospital life and emergencies for people who want authenticity."
Medical MacGyverisms (How to do medical stuff under less than ideal conditions, including delivering a baby)
Hospital Jargon (as explained by an American floor nurse)
Writing Realistic Injuries (with info on reactions to injury, minor injuries, head injuries, broken bones, dislocated joints, etc etc)
Breaking Your Character's Bones
Writing Advice - On Arrow Wounds
Writing Radiation Exposure and Poisoning
The Quick & Dirty Guide to Poisonings (wayback machine link)
How to Poison your Fictional Characters
10 Poisons Used To Kill People
A nurse describes what a heart attack feels like (and the snopes article confirming and commenting on it)
Describing what a collapsed lung feels like (wayback machine link)
Writing alcoholics and DTs
Why you never shock a flatline (the Doctor Grasshopper blog is no longer updated, but there's a lot of good information in it, especially in the useful posts tag)
Basic Guide to Writing a Code Blue and generally what hospitals do when a patient's heart has stopped. (wayback machine link)
Myths and tropes around defibrillation (including when to shock and when not to)
Writing Cardiac Arrest
Writing about burns (warning for graphic photos)
Writing Tips: Writing about blood loss, an infographic set
The Writer's Guide to Bleeding, Shock and Trauma part one (how much can be lost) and part 2 (stopping the bleeding)
EMTs vs Paramedics and also a typical trauma kit that an EMT might have (wayback machine link)
Treating a bullet wound in the field (and why leaving the bullet would actually be the right thing to do)
No really. Taking the bullet out does nothing to help the person (more on not removing the bullet)
Your Character’s Been Shot. Bullet In or Bullet Out? (some reasons behind removing vs leaving a bullet and symptoms that might result)
More on what might happen if a bullet isn't removed
Gun Shot Wounds Clinical look at the different kinds of wounds they cause and treatment (note- contains photos)
So You Want to Write an Outbreak Story- or epidemic or pandemic story, written by an EMT/RN based off their recent epidemiology class
Reference Guide to Writing Drug Withdrawal (tumblr post written by an RN)
Crafting Realistic Wounds In Fiction Blog Series: You Need to Know About Writing Stab Wounds, Everything You Need to Know About Writing Burns, Everything You Need to Know About Writing Gunshot Wounds, and Everything You Need to Know About Writing Bruises (series ongoing)
Info and Infographics on specific medical stuff/maladies:
Info on truth serum and more on truth serum
info and infograph on when CPR/shocking the heart should be done
vital signs and what they mean
how someone coming out of anesthesia might act
info on psych wards and hospitals
Info on US hospitals and their various units
Basic Home Nursing
The Glasgow Coma Scale
info on drug lifespans (especially useful for apocalyptic settings)
when and how to move an injured person
the process and technique of accessing an injured person
info on crush injuries
What Altitude and Depth Do to the Human Body
Details on fevers and how to write and treat them
What to know to write about a severe allergic reaction
Sepsis infographic
Carbon Monoxide poisoning sources and symptoms
More on carbon monoxide poisoning (specific to an episode of Timeless, but very useful overall)
Post with several infographics on the effects of sleep deprivation
Information regarding a pneumothorax (aka punctured lung) - what it is and how it's treated
Nerve Agent info - usage, effects, etc
Gunshot entry/exit wound infographic and an infographic that shows the different damage left by different bullets
Infographic set about Spinal Injuries
Quick and dirty guide to malnutrition, dehydration and sleep deprivation (wayback machine link)
The Devastating Effects That Sleep Deprivation Can Have on the Human Body
Writer's resource on basic wound care
Guide to Wound Closure (treating slashes and gashes when your characters can't/won't go in for professional treatment)
A Stitch in Time: Medical sutures now and in history Various historical ways of closing wounds (including ant bites) through today, including videos on how to do stitches (demonstrated on bananas)
General wound care info: Avoid using all alcohols (either drinkable or rubbing alcohol) hydrogen peroxide, or iodine as they're more likely to damage tissue then help. (source 1, 2 and 3) Instead, flush it with water or a sterile saline solution. (Interestingly, it's been proven sugar works well in accelerating and aiding in healing (source 1, 2, and 3).) Then wrap the wound with clean bandages.
More specifics:
Writing about pain (wayback machine link)
An E.R. Kicks the Habit of Opioids for Pain (NYT article- describes opioid side effects, uses and what -sometime 'alternative'- options there are)
Traumatic Brain Injuries Guide (PDF- signs and symptoms list on page 2) and TBI danger signs (wayback machine links)
Injury Profiles: Concussion (terrific overview of injury, treatment and recovery)
Assessing and treating a head injury with field medicine (with examples from of an episode of Scorpion)
General information on concussions and treatment
What to expect from a concussion, symptomwise.
Drowning: Medical Asphyxia mechanics and signs of death by drowning (warning for a postmortem photo)
Drowning rarely looks like you think it does. See: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (wayback machine link), Decoding Distress And Drowning: Spotting The Difference, Summer Water Safety: How To Identify Swimmers in Trouble or see chapter three of The Red Cross's lifeguard manual for more (wayback machine link). As a note, I lifeguarded for many years (ages ago), feel free to ask for specifics. The entire lifeguard manual is available for downloading here if you are interested.
In rare cases secondary drowning or dry drownings are complications that can happen hours after a dunking/near drowning (Webmd's info and wisegeek's info about it)
Manuals/PDFs/etc:
Resources for writing medical emergencies in fiction (gdoc of 14 pages with infographics, charts, and data on all the basics)
Traumatic Injuries Writing Reference Sheet - "How to beat up your characters: 100 helpful links!" (gdoc)
Modern Medical Techniques (for the field medic, fairly technical)
US Army WWII First Aid Field Manual (pdf- very detailed and very good for writing about how to treat people without a lot of 'modern' supplies) There is also the website, WW2 US Medical Research Centre, which was "designed to offer an excellent research utility to anyone interested in WW2 United States Army Medical history."
Korean War First Aid For Soldiers manual (published March 1954)
US Army Medical Department Handbook Of Basic Nursing 1970
First Aid for Soldiers 1989 field manual (pdf)
Tactical Combat Casualty Care Manual (pdf, very dense but very informative with step-by-step procedures on how to do all kinds of interesting stuff like using a tourniquet, etc, in the field)
HUGE (and very dense) pdf on the principles and practical tools of crisis and emergency risk communication (CERC), 2014 edition.
Wound Assessment PDF by Wound Care Education Institute (wayback machine link)
Primary Surgery, the online edition of a medical textbook aimed at doctors working with limited resources in developing countries. (wayback machine link)
Where There Is No Doctor "The most widely-used health care manual for health workers, educators, and others involved in primary health care and health promotion around the world. Current edition includes updated information on malaria, HIV, and more." (this PDF and many others are available to download here like Where Women Have No Doctor and A Book for Midwives, many of which are available in other languages as well)
A Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness & Travel Medicine (PDF, wayback machine link)
Wilderness and Remote First Aid Emergency Reference Guide by Boy Scouts of America and American Red Cross (PDF)
Wilderness and Remote First Aid by the American Red Cross (PDF)
Weapons Effects Weapons and the injuries they cause and how/why they cause them (US Army Medical Department Center pdf, contains graphic photos, wayback machine link), for more detailed info: Emergency War Surgery 5th Edition (pdf or epub)
Riot Medicine a public domain book "to help street medics in the struggle for liberation, autonomy, and dignity for all." (available as a free pdf by author, seems to work best in firefox rather than chrome)
The ship captain's medical guide "Practical medical guidance for laymen (non-doctors) working on board a ship;" 22nd ed, 2014 PDF (wayback machine link) ( for comparison the 13th edition, 1901. (via archive.org))
The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments (PDF of textbook, chockfull of info on the nature of human physical boundaries, made available by author)
random but interesting:
Erowid, a site with thousands of drug users’ first hand experiences with hundreds of different substances (illegal, OTC, prescribed and more)
Drugsand.me an educational website with an interactive feature giving information on dosage, effects, interactions (and more) of various drugs sourced from peer-reviewed academic publications.
DrugCocktails Facts about mixing medicine, booze, and street drugs.
Infographic on the effects of different types of drugs on the body (physical, mental, behavior, etc with alcohol, opiates, marijuana etc) and a slightly different one (both by narconon international)
"A Treatise Concerning Leg Wounds and the Foolishness of the Concept of Continuing Combat after Receipt of the Same" (Wayback machine link) Where in two guys decide to see if adrenaline meant you really could keep fighting after being stabbed in the leg and wrote about their experiences. "What conclusions can be reached from the folly of our two friends? A number of lessons have sprung from this experience, not the least of which was a resolve by the participants to never embark upon such a foolish course of action again." (yes, good plan) "But the most important finding concerning this ghastly little experiment dealt with the pain of a thrust to the leg and its sapping of one's will and ability to continue fighting. An admittedly shallow puncture wound that touched no vital areas and caused no significant permanent muscle or tendon damage rendered a fighter completely defenseless for a matter of at least five seconds (more than enough time for his opponent to finish him) and both unwilling and unable to continue the contest once the shock had worn off. This was in spite of the rush of adrenaline that the wounded individual admitted was coursing through his system within seconds of the wound. The pain of the wound was not lessened in any way by a change from a standing to a sitting or to a prone position. The pain was ever present and it terminated the fight."
some sites to check for more info:
Patrick Kelly's History of Medicine youtube channel well researched videos on histories of medicines, diseases, treatments and more.
The human body systems interactive map of the 11 major organ systems of the human body
The Survival Doctor "Survival Medicine for Disasters"
Medical Meta Masterposts (mostly "powerpoints" on things like blood loss, trauma, spinal injuries, medicines/drugs, death, etc)
Resource Posts "Wound Types and How to Treat Them" with lots of links
Cascade Hospital - "a resource website designed specifically to help fanfic and other fiction writers who want to make their stories more medically authentic" (long defunct site put together by fans of The Sentinel fandom, wayback machine link)
Emergency Medicine posts by Jim Macdonald - ranging in topics from burns to heart attacks to trauma these have good details you might be able to use in your fics.
Random Thoughts of an Urban Paramedic (wayback machine link, a Boston paramedic's blog and commentary on calls and experiences, now defunct)
The Amputee Coalition - For any resources regarding amputation you might need
There is also some information on medical treatments in other times in my historical links post.
Research and Resource Collected Links Masterpost