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When war broke out in France, in August 1914, getting a wounded soldier from the battlefield to a hospital required horse-drawn wagons or mules with baskets on either side.
When war broke out in France, in August 1914, getting a wounded soldier from the battlefield to a hospital required horse-drawn wagons or mules with baskets on either side.
WWI troops were the first to be diagnosed with shell shock.
- How did countries cope with the psychological traumas of war, such as shell shock? Find the answer.
WWI slaughtered and mutilated soldiers on a scale never before seen. So its little wonder that vast numbers of returning veterans, crippled from injuries, led to major gains in prosthetics.
- How was the field of prosthetics advanced during WWI? Find the answer.
- Want to learn about facial prosthetics? Click here.
The origin of plastic surgery is a particularly bloody one - odds are, the very first procedures ever done didn't come from a place of vanity, but rather one of necessity.
- How did WWI lead to the development of the medical field of plastic surgery? Find the answer.
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