Western front

• Trench foot

  cause: waterlogged trenches

  Symptoms: Swollen and wrinkled feet

  Treatments: Amputation and fresh socks every day
• Trench fever

  Cause: Lice that bit the soldiers which spread it very quickly

  Symptoms: flu like symptoms

  Treatments: lice repellent and picking the lice off
• Shell shock

  cause: trauma from war

  symptoms: physical reactions to fear that continue on

  treatments: exercises and therapy
• Infection

  Causes: deep bullet wounds which left dirt from clothes in the body

  symptoms: lack of healing for the wound, swelling, discolouration

  treatments: limited cures for this as antiseptic was used and wasnt enough for the severity
• Nature of wounds

  causes: lack of protection

  symptoms: major internal and tissue damage, blood loss

  Treatments: amputation and stonger protection
• Poison gas

  cause: to disable the enemy

  symptoms: loss of senses and suffocation

  treatments: gas masks, cloth in urine and cleaning the skin thoroughly