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The Important Reason We Label Generations & The Strange Stories of Medical Breakthroughs

Something You Should Know

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The History of Trauma Care

The field of trauma care owes a lot to the history of military medicine. A surgeon in Napoleon's army realized that soldiers who were wounded and left on the battlefield until the battle was over for often 24 or 48 hours had a much less chance of surviving. Joseph Lister found aniseptic solution called carbolic acid that he would use to cleanse a wound before amputating or doing anything.

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