WW1 Medicine: General Info
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- WWI Medicine: General Info
- Lice
- Left blotchy red marks all over body.
- Carried Trench Fever
- Didn't kill but stopped soldiers fighting.
- Trench Foot
- Swollen and cold feet
- Blisters common
- Black toes, blue foot.
- Toes and feet may die and become gangrenous
- Dysentery
- Disease involving inflammation of lining of intestines.
- Inflammation=Stomach pains, diarrhoea, can be fatal if body dehydrates.
- Industrialisation of Warfare
- Weapons more powerful and lethal.
- Anti Tetanus Injections
- Helped with tetanus
- Helmets reduced head wounds by 80%
- Even horses had to wear gas masks.
- Gases didn't help one side win the war, but did increase levels of suffering on both sides
- GERS 68,000 tonnes of gas
- GB 25,000 tonnes of gas
- FRANCE 36,000 tonnes of gas
- Men had permanent masks constructed onto their face to hide their facial disfigurement
- Barbed Wire
- Invented by Americans
- Slowed enemy advance
- Forced soldiers to rise above ground, making them bigger and easier targets
- Officers suffered some of the worst psychological effects as they had to repress their emotions to set an example to their men
- War neurosis 4x higher in Officers than Soldiers
- Lice
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