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1. Trenches and Warfare
1. Trenches and Warfare
The context of the British sector of Western Front and the theatre of warn Flanders and northern France: the Ypres salient, the Somme, Arras and Cambrai.
The trench system - its construction and organisation, including frontline and support trenches.
The use of mines at Hill 60 near Ypres and the expansion of tunnels, caves and quarries at Arras.
Significance for medical treatment of the nature of the terrain and problems of the transport and communications infrastructure.
2. Trenches and Illnesses
2. Trenches and Illnesses
Conditions requiring medical treatment on the Western Front, including the problems of ill health arising from the trench environment.
The nature of wounds from rifles and explosives.
The problem of shrapnel, wound infection and increased numbers of head injuries.
The effects of gas attacks.
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3. Evacuation and the RAMC
3. Evacuation and the RAMC
The work of the RAMC and FANY.
The system of transport: stretcher bearers, horse and motor ambulances.
The stages of treatment areas: aid post and field ambulance, dressing station, casualty clearing station, base hospital.
The underground hospital at Arras.
4. Medical Innovations on the Western Front
4. Medical Innovations on the Western Front
The significance of the Western Front for experiments in surgery and medicine: new techniques in the treatment of wounds and infection, the Thomas splint, the use of mobile x-ray units, the creation of a blood bank for the Battle of Cambrai.
The historical context of medicine in the early twentieth century: the understanding of infection and moves towards aseptic surgery; the development of x-rays; blood transfusions and developments in the storage of blood.
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