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medical development ww1 - Coggle Diagram
medical development ww1
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plastic surgery
army doctor Harold gillies worked out how to attach a healthy piece to a injured piece of skin to an injured space
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Blood transfusion
then in 1914 Albert hustin discovered that glucose and sodium citrate stopped the blood from clotting with contact with the air
other advances meant that blood could be stored in a bottle packed in ice and taken to where it was needed to be taken
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shell shock
at first the army refused to believe that shell shocked existed and many of the men were treated as cowards
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the horrors and exhaustion of war could lead to the cause of shell shock some shell shocked soldiers panic attacks others shook all the time and some others couldn't speak or move
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