Lessons from the enemy : how Germany cares for her war disabled / by John R. McDill.

  • McDill, John R. (John Rich), 1860-1934
Date:
1918
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Credit: Lessons from the enemy : how Germany cares for her war disabled / by John R. McDill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    engagement the battalion surgeon is stationed near the battalion commander, when his services are not needed with the injured. In these units an oculist is available from the regiment to prescribe glasses which are prepared by an optician from the division. A dental assistant does neces- Fig. 7.—Ground plan of a front-line regimental trench hospital in 1916 (Ortskrankenstube) “somewhere in France” underground. (Henning.) Personal communication. sary dental work and gives first aid in cases of hemorrhage from the jaws. When such a station is long occupied, kitchens, gardens and general farming with raising of chickens, pigs and cattle for the sick is sometimes feasible. The doctors and sanitary soldiers attached to a troop or battalion in the trenches engaging the enemy must crawl
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