What medical hep could soldiers in the first world war expect?
The help soldiers could expect is not as sophisticated as soldiers of today can expect. There were medical reception stations where casualties were put through the triage system, whether this system worked is debatable as the criteria was to get as many men back into the front line as quickly as possible. You could therefore say that the lightly injured were patched up and sent back to the front. The conditions in the field were very dirty and unhygienic, medicine in short supply and the limit of doctors knowledge of battlefield injuries was very limited. Having said this it is in war that surgeons do make ground breaking discoveries in in treatment which is later adopted in civilian medicine. The more serious injured were sent further back in horse and cart or horse drawn ambulances and the odd motorised ambulance. The ground was very bogey and rough, the journey to the field hospital often being the demise of the wounded. Again treatment was done on the triage principle, these hospit
