Medicine breakthroughs

WWII

WWI

Surgery

Infrections

Blood loss

Combating diseases

Improvements to public health

Surgical techniqual

Penicillin

blood could be stored without clotting and then be made usable by adding a saline solution

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Used it to treat an infected wound

nineteenth century

clothing carried bacteria and caused deadly gas gangrede

cutting infected tissue had the best result

blood transfusions only worked in some patients because of their different blood group

Reconstructive plastic surgery

the war led blood transfusion system be more sophisticated

new techniques for broken bones

the work of using skin grafts was the fsudation of plastic surgery

government commission offer benefits for all people after the war

After the WWII the government improved the public health

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german scientists made somefinding using atebrin against malaria

there was a coherent scientific investigation into mosquito bites