The First World War, which lasted from 1914 until 1918, ushered in a new kind of mechanized warfare. Bodies were maimed, burned and gassed, and as many as 280,000 combatants were left with ghastly ...
Dillon fought against his strictly gendered upbringing to live the life he wanted to live, and that life included the world’s first successful phalloplasty, or transmasc bottom surgery. Dillon ...
Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the story Dr. Harold Gillies, a military surgeon who spent WWI reconstructing the faces of soldiers and... With no textbooks or antibiotics, this WWI surgeon ...