Author: Thomas Scotland
Publisher: Helion and Company
ISBN: 1909384372
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
“A most interesting book, both from a World War I historical perspective and from the major changes in medicine that are so well outlined.” —British Journal of Surgery The First World War resulted in appalling wounds that quickly became grossly infected. The medical profession had to rapidly modify its clinical practice to deal with the major problems presented by overwhelming sepsis. Besides risk of infection, there were many other issues to be addressed including casualty evacuation, anesthesia, the use of X-rays, and how to deal with disfiguring wounds—plastic surgery in its infancy. This book focuses closely on the human aspects of the surgery of warfare, and how developments in the understanding of combat injuries occurred. Ten essays covering a wide variety of topics, including the evacuation of casualties; anesthesia, shock, and resuscitation; pathology; X-rays; orthopedic wounds; abdominal wounds; chest wounds; wounds of the skull and brain; and the development of plastic surgery. All material is supported by an extensive number of figures, tables, and images. Those with a passion for the history of this period, even if they have no medical training, will find fascinating information about those surgeons who worked in Casualty Clearing Stations between 1914 and 1918—and laid the foundations for modern war surgery as practiced today.
War Surgery 1914–18
Author: Thomas Scotland
Publisher: Helion and Company
ISBN: 1909384372
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
“A most interesting book, both from a World War I historical perspective and from the major changes in medicine that are so well outlined.” —British Journal of Surgery The First World War resulted in appalling wounds that quickly became grossly infected. The medical profession had to rapidly modify its clinical practice to deal with the major problems presented by overwhelming sepsis. Besides risk of infection, there were many other issues to be addressed including casualty evacuation, anesthesia, the use of X-rays, and how to deal with disfiguring wounds—plastic surgery in its infancy. This book focuses closely on the human aspects of the surgery of warfare, and how developments in the understanding of combat injuries occurred. Ten essays covering a wide variety of topics, including the evacuation of casualties; anesthesia, shock, and resuscitation; pathology; X-rays; orthopedic wounds; abdominal wounds; chest wounds; wounds of the skull and brain; and the development of plastic surgery. All material is supported by an extensive number of figures, tables, and images. Those with a passion for the history of this period, even if they have no medical training, will find fascinating information about those surgeons who worked in Casualty Clearing Stations between 1914 and 1918—and laid the foundations for modern war surgery as practiced today.
Publisher: Helion and Company
ISBN: 1909384372
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
“A most interesting book, both from a World War I historical perspective and from the major changes in medicine that are so well outlined.” —British Journal of Surgery The First World War resulted in appalling wounds that quickly became grossly infected. The medical profession had to rapidly modify its clinical practice to deal with the major problems presented by overwhelming sepsis. Besides risk of infection, there were many other issues to be addressed including casualty evacuation, anesthesia, the use of X-rays, and how to deal with disfiguring wounds—plastic surgery in its infancy. This book focuses closely on the human aspects of the surgery of warfare, and how developments in the understanding of combat injuries occurred. Ten essays covering a wide variety of topics, including the evacuation of casualties; anesthesia, shock, and resuscitation; pathology; X-rays; orthopedic wounds; abdominal wounds; chest wounds; wounds of the skull and brain; and the development of plastic surgery. All material is supported by an extensive number of figures, tables, and images. Those with a passion for the history of this period, even if they have no medical training, will find fascinating information about those surgeons who worked in Casualty Clearing Stations between 1914 and 1918—and laid the foundations for modern war surgery as practiced today.
British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918
Author: Claire Brock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107186935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A rich new examination of the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon in Britain from 1860 to 1918. This title is also available as Open Access.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107186935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A rich new examination of the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon in Britain from 1860 to 1918. This title is also available as Open Access.
War Surgery
Author: Christos Giannou
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amputees
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Accompanying CD-ROM contains graphic footage of various war wound surgeries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amputees
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Accompanying CD-ROM contains graphic footage of various war wound surgeries.
Faces from the Front
Author: Andrew Bamji
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781915113023
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781915113023
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War.
Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery
Author: Frederick Strange Kolle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surgery, Plastic
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surgery, Plastic
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine
Author: Thomas Helling
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643139002
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on the European scene with a brutality to mankind not yet witnessed by the civilized world. Modern warfare was no longer the stuff of chivalry and honor; it was a mutilative, deadly, and humbling exercise to wipe out the very presence of humanity. Suddenly, thousands upon thousands of maimed, beaten, and bleeding men surged into aid stations and hospitals with injuries unimaginable in their scope and destruction. Doctors scrambled to find some way to salvage not only life but limb. The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine provides a startling and graphic account of the efforts of teams of doctors and researchers to quickly develop medical and surgical solutions. Those problems of gas gangrene, hemorrhagic shock, gas poisoning, brain trauma, facial disfigurement, broken bones, and broken spirits flooded hospital beds, stressing caregivers and prompting medical innovations that would last far beyond the Armistice of 1918 and would eventually provide the backbone of modern medical therapy. Thomas Helling’s description of events that shaped refinements of medical care is a riveting account of the ingenuity and resourcefulness of men and women to deter the total destruction of the human body and human mind. His tales of surgical daring, industrial collaboration, scientific discovery, and utter compassion provide an understanding of the horror that laid a foundation for the medical wonders of today. The marvels of resuscitation, blood transfusion, brain surgery, X-rays, and bone setting all had their beginnings on the battlefields of France. The influenza contagion in 1918 was an ominous forerunner of the frightening pandemic of 2020-2021. For anyone curious about the true terrors of war and the miracles of modern medicine, this is a must read.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643139002
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on the European scene with a brutality to mankind not yet witnessed by the civilized world. Modern warfare was no longer the stuff of chivalry and honor; it was a mutilative, deadly, and humbling exercise to wipe out the very presence of humanity. Suddenly, thousands upon thousands of maimed, beaten, and bleeding men surged into aid stations and hospitals with injuries unimaginable in their scope and destruction. Doctors scrambled to find some way to salvage not only life but limb. The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine provides a startling and graphic account of the efforts of teams of doctors and researchers to quickly develop medical and surgical solutions. Those problems of gas gangrene, hemorrhagic shock, gas poisoning, brain trauma, facial disfigurement, broken bones, and broken spirits flooded hospital beds, stressing caregivers and prompting medical innovations that would last far beyond the Armistice of 1918 and would eventually provide the backbone of modern medical therapy. Thomas Helling’s description of events that shaped refinements of medical care is a riveting account of the ingenuity and resourcefulness of men and women to deter the total destruction of the human body and human mind. His tales of surgical daring, industrial collaboration, scientific discovery, and utter compassion provide an understanding of the horror that laid a foundation for the medical wonders of today. The marvels of resuscitation, blood transfusion, brain surgery, X-rays, and bone setting all had their beginnings on the battlefields of France. The influenza contagion in 1918 was an ominous forerunner of the frightening pandemic of 2020-2021. For anyone curious about the true terrors of war and the miracles of modern medicine, this is a must read.
Barbed Wire Disease
Author: Adolf Lucas Vischer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nervous system
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nervous system
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Shell Schock in France 1914-18
Author:
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Shell Shock in France, 1914-1918
Author: Charles S. Myers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110767378X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This 1940 book by Charles S. Myers, Consulting Psychologist to the British Armies in the First World War, explains his work on shell shock.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110767378X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This 1940 book by Charles S. Myers, Consulting Psychologist to the British Armies in the First World War, explains his work on shell shock.
War story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps v. 1
Author: John George Adami
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description