W hile solemn Veterans Day remembrance ceremonies were taking place at the National WWI Museum and Memorial on Tuesday, ...
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 ...
Long before women were widely accepted in medical professions, Aleen Cust broke barriers and became the first woman to be ...
Single image from group of six on page plate depicting WW1 plastic surgery cases at the King George Military Hospital 1917-1918 taken; by Dr Albert Norman, Scientific phototgrapher.
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 ...