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Coverage: 1850 to 1949
Includes primary sources that can be used to explore the history of illness, treatment and disease on international front lines from 1850 to 1949. Chart scientific advances through hospital records, medical reports and first-hand accounts.
The four conflicts robustly represented are the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the First World War and the Second World War. Many other conflicts also have relevant documents and can be discovered via keyword searching, including the Boer Wars, Spanish-American War and the Spanish Civil War.
Documents are organized into the following themes to facilitate browsing.
- Advances in Plastic Surgery
- Ambulance Systems
- Blood Storage and Shipment
- Burns Treatments
- Disability
- Fitness and Performance Enhancement
- Hospital Care
- Humanitarian Relief
- Interwar Healthcare Improvements
- Medical Developments and Equipment
- Mental Health
- Nursing
- Penicillin and Antibiotic Development
- Personal Experience
- Public Health, Welfare and Reform
- Rehabilitation
- Sanitation
- Women at War