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- Title
Medical advances consequent to the Great War 1914-1918.
- Authors
Bennett, J. D. C.
- Abstract
The article presents information on the developments in medicine during the first World War. The prominent medical issues arising from the war were the hygiene and the medical administration of the huge armies. 23 million milliliters of vaccines for typhoid and paratyphoid were developed by the vaccine department of the Royal Army Medical College. The various developments in medicine included the use of X-rays, Plaster of Paris bandages, and blood transfusion.
- Subjects
MEDICINE &; war; ARMIES -- Medical &; sanitary affairs; MILITARY personnel wounded in action; X-rays; BLOOD transfusion; WORLD War I
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1990, Vol 83, Issue 11, p738
- ISSN
0141-0768
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/014107689008301119