THE GREAT WAR AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN MEDICINE: A History

The story of the startling medical advances that developed as a reaction to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The problems of gas gangrene, hemorrhagic shock, gas poisoning, brain trauma, facial disfigurement, broken bones, and broken spirits flooded hospital beds, stressing caregivers and prompting medical innovations that would last far beyond the Armistice of 1918. Photos, some in color.