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War and Medicine

By NotARamenNoodl

  • Joseph Priestly Discovers Nitrous Oxide

    Joseph Priestly Discovers Nitrous Oxide
    Overview
    Used as a party gas in the American South.

  • John Pringle Elected head of Royal Society for his Work on Antisepsis

    John Pringle Elected head of Royal Society for his Work on Antisepsis
    Biographical Info
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    French Revolution

    Brief Overview
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    Napoleonic Wars

    Overview

  • Levée en Masse

    Levée en Masse
    The beginning of entire populations being mobilized for war

  • Britain Increases Opium Trade with China

    Britain Increases Opium Trade with China
    Details of Trade
    Britain increases average from 1000 cases per year to 10,000 cases per year. Opium is traded for porcelains and silks.

  • Louis-René Villermé's Numerical Testing and Annales d'hygiène

    Louis-René Villermé's Numerical Testing and Annales d'hygiène
    Overview
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    First Opium War

    Overview
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    Crimean War

    Overview
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    Second Opium War

    Overview
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    American Civil War

    Overview

  • U.S. Sanitary Commission Created

    U.S. Sanitary Commission Created
    Overview

  • First Geneva Convention Establishes Red Cross

    First Geneva Convention Establishes Red Cross
    Overview

  • Joseph Lister Pioneers Antiseptic Surgery

    Joseph Lister Pioneers Antiseptic Surgery
    Biographical Info

  • Successful Version of Barbed Wire Patented

    Successful Version of Barbed Wire Patented
    Overview

  • First Concentration Camps

    First Concentration Camps
    The first concentration camps were used during the First Boer War. Also used were machine guns.
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    First Boer War

    Overview

  • Maxim Gun Patented

    Maxim Gun Patented
    Overview
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    Spanish American War

    Overview

  • Walter Reed's Yellow Fever Experiments

    Walter Reed's Yellow Fever Experiments
    Short Bibliography
    Walter Reed exposed people to mosquitoes known to carry Yellow Fever, proving that they were the vector

  • First Hague Convention

    First Hague Convention
    Overview
    One of the first international conventions on the ways wars should be fought.
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    Russo-Japanese War

    Overview
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    World War I

    Overview

  • Shell Shock is Beginning to be Diagnosed

    Shell Shock is Beginning to be Diagnosed
    History of PTSDOverview
    A precursor to PTSD and important for the military and psychological testing

  • African American Nurses accepted into U.S. Nursing Corps

    African American Nurses accepted into U.S. Nursing Corps
    Overview
    Done with the organization of Mabel Keaton Staupers.

  • The Building of Unit 731, the Japanese Human Testing Facility, was Completed

    The Building of Unit 731, the Japanese Human Testing Facility, was Completed
    Overview
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    World War II

    Overview