TIL in 1866, the State of Mississippi spent more than half its yearly budget providing Civil War veterans with prosthetics

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/war-and-prosthetics/



Submitted January 28, 2015 at 10:46PM by Physiology94 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2tzb3t/til_in_1866_the_state_of_mississippi_spent_more/