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Combat medics attend to Irish casualties following the opening attack of the Battle of Passchendaele, 1917. Battlefield medicine, also called field surgery and later combat casualty care, is the treatment of wounded combatants and non-combatants in or near an area of combat.
7th Medical Battalion, reorganized and redesignated as the 6th Medical Battalion, 1 July 1940 [174] 8th Medical Battalion, 8th Division, redesignated 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Division, 1 July 1940 [175] 11th Medical Battalion, 11th Air Assault Division, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1 July 1965 [178] 12th Medical Battalion, End of World War II [10]
The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800 (1995); excerpt and text search. Bynum, W.F. et al. The Western Medical Tradition: 1800–2000 (2006) excerpt and text search; Loudon, Irvine, ed. Western Medicine: An Illustrated History (1997) online Archived 26 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine; McGrew, Roderick. Encyclopedia of Medical ...
Military medical personnel engage in humanitarian work and are "protected persons" under international humanitarian law in accordance with the First and Second Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, which established legally binding rules guaranteeing neutrality and protection for wounded soldiers, field or ship's medical personnel, and specific humanitarian institutions in an ...
Ostra Brama (1944) – battle for Wilno ; Canuck (1945) – SAS operation near Turin to train and organise Italian resistance fighters. Carpetbagger (1943) – US airdrops to several national Resistance forces; Główki ("Heads") (1943–1944) – a series of assassinations of Nazi personnel by the Home Army. Bürkl (1943) – assassination of ...
A look back at the Battle of Versailles, the runway show that put American fashion on the map as it marks a historic 50th anniversary milestone.
A 12th-century manuscript of the Hippocratic Oath in Greek, one of the most famous aspects of classical medicine that carried into later eras. The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.
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