Battlefield medicine - illness
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- Created on: 07-06-21 17:36
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- Illness in the trenches
- Trench Fever
- medical name is Pyrexia
- symptoms
- severe headaches
- shivering
- pain in the bones and joints
- spread by lice
- greybacks
- live in the seams of clothing and blankets
- also called 'relapsing fever'
- Trench Foot
- caused by standing in waterlogged trenches
- feet numb, swollen, turning blue
- no chance to change wet boots and socks
- could lead to gangrene
- the term for dead flesh and body tissue caused by insufficient blood flow
- could lead to amputation
- caused by standing in waterlogged trenches
- Shell-Shock
- term first used in 1914
- describes psychological reactions to danger
- symptoms ranged from uncontrollable diarrhoea to unrelenting anxiety
- 80,000 recorded cases (1.28% of overall casualties
- term first used in 1914
- Trench Fever
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