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History Of The Great War

189: The Medical War Pt. 1

History Of The Great War

Wesley Livesay

Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.6889 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode we discuss medical care during the war. Do you want to chat with other History of the Great War listeners, and yours truly, come hang out in Discord: https://discord.gg/ASbBjaT Support the podcast on http://patreon.com/historyofthegreatwar where you can get access to special supporter only episodes. For a no strings attached donation: http://buymeacoffee.com/greatwar Sources: A Grateful Heart: The History of a World War I Field Hospital by Michael Shay Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War by Christine E. Hallett Doctors in the Great War by Ian R Whitehead Before my Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying, and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Leo Van Bergen The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War by Mark Harrison Medics at War: Military Medicine from Colonial Times to the 21st Century by John T. Greenwood and F. Cliften Berry Jr. A History of Neurosurgery: In its Scientific and Professional Contexts Edited By Samuel Greenblatt, T. Dagi, and Mel Epstein (1995) The Bradshaw Lecture on Wounds in War by Sir Anthony Bowlby Notes on Penetrating Wounds of the Brain by Harvey Cushing Cushing and the Treatment of Brain Wounds During World War 1 by Michael Carey Fedor Krause (1857-1937): The Father of German Neurosurgery by A Whole Bunch of People From a Surgeon's Journal by Harvey Cushing Gunshot Injuries of the Skull: An Analysis of a Series of Twenty Cases by Cecil A. JollHarvey Cushing: A biography by John F. Fulton Harvey Cushing, Neurosurgical Pioneer by Jeffrey Bruce and Samuel Bruce Sir Victor Horsley - An Inspiration by Michael Powell Sir Victor Horsley at the Birth of Neurosurgery by Michael Powell Sir Victor Horsley: His Life and Work by Arthur MacNalty Sir Victor Horsley, Physiologist and Surgeon A Revisionist History of American Neurology by S.T. Casper Working in a World of Hurt: Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives of Medical Personnel in Warzones by Carol Acton and Jane Potter The Neurologists: A History of a Medical Speciality in Modern Britain, c. 1789-2000 by Stephen T. Casper The Cradle of Neurology by J. Hutchison The Treatment of War Wounds by W.W. Keen A Study of a Series of Wounds Involving the Brain and its Enveloping Structures by Harvey Cushing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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put my heart right. Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Great War episode 189. What follows is a lengthy and special episode. It's a version of a talk that I gave on

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January 24th at UT South Western and it deals with the medical side of the First World War.

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I hope you enjoy it.

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The First World War would begin in August 1914, and it would very quickly become the largest

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