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Medicine in the War

Doctors and nurses were recruited from civilian hospitals to serve in the United States Army medical corps, while others volunteered with the American Red Cross. Hospitals were established at home and abroad to care for the sick and wounded, and new medical technologies, such as mobile X-Ray machines and motorized ambulances, were used for the first time.

Hospital Ships - X-ray room, U.S.S. Mercy

An Army medical field ambulance used during World War I

Soldier of Company K, 110th Regiment Infantry, just wounded, receiving first-aid treatment from a comrade. Varennes-en-Argonne, France.

Doctors in laboratory, Camp Devens, Massachusetts

 

Accordion

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Red Cross

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