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Norman T. Kirk (January 3, 1888 – August 13, 1960) was a surgeon who specialized in bone and joint surgery during World War 1 and was Surgeon General of the Army from 1943 to 1947 during the height of the second World War.
Entrance to Endell Street Military Hospital, c. 1915 The concept of the Women's Hospital Corps was created and instituted in 1914. Previously met with hostility by officials, Doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson decided to bypass the British government by going directly to the French Embassy with their offer to run a military hospital in Wimereux, France.
World War I This was a specific unit designation, much like a Combat Support, MASH, or Evacuation Hospital [118] Embarkation Hospital No. 1, St. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken, New Jersey, October 1919 Embarkation Hospital No. 2, Secaucus, New Jersey, February 1919
Stephan Kurt Westmann (23 July 1893 – 7 October 1964) was a German soldier and physician.. In the First World War, Westmann served in the German 29th Infantry Division on the Western and Eastern fronts and then as an Air Force surgeon, although unqualified.
Archived from the original on 1 March 2009. The short film A Method of Teaching Combat Surgery (1958) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. "Sawbones 1945" video, depicting archeological evidence of first aid and emergency surgery on the exhumed bodies of World War II German soldiers
Sir Henry McIlltree Williamson Gray (1870–1938) was a Scottish surgeon who made very important contributions to the treatment of wounded soldiers during the First World War. He pioneered the operation of wound excision, which is a procedure to systematically remove all devitalised and contaminated tissue, leaving only healthy bleeding tissue ...
Hugh Owen Thomas was the great-grandson of a young boy who had been shipwrecked on Anglesey (Ynys Môn) between 1743 and 1745 with his brother. One of the young brothers died a few days later but the survivor was given the name Evan Thomas by the family that adopted and raised him, he established a family tradition of bone-setting.
Grow received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in 1909. In August, 1915 Dr. Grow met Dr. Edward Egbert, Chief Surgeon of the American Red Cross Hospital in Kiev, in Washington, D.C. Dr. Egbert convinced Grow to travel with him to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to assist in the Russian war effort.