The Change of Medicine and Healthcare Throughout the First World War

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Change in Medicine and Healthcare throughout the First World War

By: Tonko van Leeuwen

Table of Contents

Title Page - 1

Introduction - 2

Narrative & Analysis - 2, 3

Sources - 4

Conclusion - 4

Bibliography - 4

Introduction

For a long period of time, proper healthcare and medicine was unheard of in war. It wasn't until recently, starting with World War 1, that a greater amount of care was put into keeping soldiers alive. With the massive amount of deaths and wounded occurring in the First World War, new ways and technologies to improve medicine and health for the soldiers were developed in a very short period of time. It is the increase to attention for healthcare that results in a lot of experts saying that more often then not, a war will result in advances and improvements in health and medicine, and certainly World War 1 was no exception, resulting in massive improvements in techniques such as X-rays, blood transfusions, and ways of more efficient surgery techniques.

So how did the First World War help with the progression of health and medicine techniques?