medical problems
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- Created on: 30-12-18 13:27
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- medical problems
- trench foot
- caused by standing in waterlogged trenches
- resulted in amputations of limbs and gangrene
- trench fever
- flu symptoms such as high temperature, headache and aching muscles
- spread by lice and men could be ill for a month. affected half a million men on western front
- shell shock
- symptoms such as tiredness, headaches, nightmares, loss of speech, uncontrollable shaking and complete mental breakdown
- used code word (not yet diagnosed nervous) by army for shell shock
- gas attacks
- types of gas were: chlorine(1915), phosgene (1915), mustard (1917.
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