Serendipitous Consequence of Fate
In the American Civil War, a conflict that ranks in the annals of all recorded human history as one of the costliest in lives and debilitating injuries the surgical survival rate of soldiers on each side varied markedly in one major aspect: treated Southern troops tended to fair better postoperatively from surgically-related infection, than their Northern counterparts. This was due in no small measure not to superior surgical skill or knowledge but rather the serendipitous co