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Seattle policemen wearing cloth face masks handed out by the American Red Cross during the Spanish flu pandemic, December 1918. The pandemic is conventionally marked as having begun on 4 March 1918 with the recording of the case of Albert Gitchell, an army cook at Camp Funston in Kansas, United States, despite there having been cases before him ...
Photo of Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., during the great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 - 1919, also known as the "Spanish Flu". Patients are set up in rows of beds on an open gallery, seperated by hung sheets. A nurse wears a cloth mask over her nose and mouth. Date: Not dated, probably during the height of the epidemic, 1918 - 1919: Source
A few Liberals, including Álvaro de Figueroa, leader of the opposition in the Cortes, were also pro-Allied, [4] along with Miguel de Unamuno and other select members of the Spanish intelligentsia. [5] [6] The Italian government's initial neutrality was a key factor in the Spanish government also being able to declare itself neutral. [7]
Some Russians fought for the Allies on the Western Front of WW1 as part of the Russian Legion. They were former members of the Russian Expeditionary Force. A small group of White Russian emigres fought for Nationalist Spain as part of the Spanish Legion. Asano Brigade, a unit of White Russian Emigres in Manchukuo.
Jean-Michel Dubernard (French: [dybɛʁnaʁ]; 17 May 1941 – 10 July 2021) was a French medical doctor specializing in transplant surgery who served as a Deputy in the French National Assembly. He was born in Lyon.
Totenkopf (German: [ˈtoːtn̩ˌkɔpf], i.e. skull, literally "dead person's head") is the German word for skull. The word is often used to denote a figurative, graphic or sculptural symbol, common in Western culture, consisting of the representation of a human skull – usually frontal, more rarely in profile with or without the mandible .
During World War I (1914–1918), Carrel and the English chemist Henry Drysdale Dakin developed the Carrel–Dakin method of treating wounds with an antiseptic solution based on chlorine, known as Dakin's solution. This method, which involved wound debridement and irrigation with a high volume of antiseptic fluid, was a significant medical ...
After her involvement with the South African War, MacDonald returned to Canada, where she was soon named the head nurse of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. As head nurse, MacDonald was in charge of the admission process and sought to keep a high reputation for the corps and did not allow nurses to get serve unless they had proper, professional ...