alcohol -used as a total antiseptic and solvent.

allotrio -a combining form meaning strange or foreign.

ambulance -an emergency vehicle used for the transport of patients to a medical facility.

anesthetic -a drug or agent that is capable of producing a complete or partial loss of feeling.

anti-bacterial -of or pertaining to a substance that kills bacteria or inhibits their growth or replication.

bacteria -any of the small unicellular microorganisms of the class schizomycetes.  Bacteria is the cause of infection.

blood -a liquid pumped by the heart through all the arteries, veins, and capillaries.

chloroform -a volatile liquid that was the first inhalation anesthetic to be discovered.  It was used during amputation.

gangrene -necrosis or death of tissue, usually the result of ischemia (loss of blood supply) bacterial invasion, and subsequent putrefaction.  Moist gangrene may follow a crushing injury or on obstruction of blood flow by an embolism.  This type of gangrene has an offensive odor and spreads rapidly.

malnutrition -any disorder concealing nutrition.

morphine sulfate -a narcotic analgesic prescribed to reduce pain, can be addictive.

pus -a creamy, vicious, pale yellow or yellow-green fluid exudate that is the result of liquefaction necrosis.  Bacterial infection is its most common cause.

surgery -a branch of medicine concerned with diseases and trauma requiring operative procedures.

tourniquet -a device used in controlling hemorrhages, or bleeding.  Was also used for amputations.