War

• Wars


  • War
  • Boer War
  • FWW
  • SWW
• Army surgeons


  • Commonly use amputations and cauterisation
  • Surgeons like Pare and Hunter made their first discoveries on the battlefield
• Boer War


  Recruits were unfit, led to improvements in public health
• FWW


  • Xrays
  • Blood transfusions
  • Plastic surgery
• SWW


  • Plastic surgery
  • Blood transfusions
  • Penicillin