The Japanese army surgeon in his element : first aid to the wounded in the Manchurian battlefield / Photo-Nouvelles Agency.

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<p>Cutting from a pictorial magazine (12 August 1905?) showing workers from "the Japanese Army Surgical Department at a first-aid station in the field, where surgeons are doing what they can ... pending the removal of the wounded to a base hospital. Operating tables have been extemporised from the corps' portable chests, across which a plank has been laid."</p>

The Japanese army surgeon in his element : first aid to the wounded in the Manchurian battlefield / Photo-Nouvelles Agency.

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