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Uncover some common notions on the medical and surgical care during the American Civil War, with a focus on the necessity of limb amputation

How Marie Curie revolutionized battlefield medicine

Army helicopter retrieving an injured soldier to be transported to a mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) during the Korean War, July 1951.

How antibiotics saved lives during World War II

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British troops in a trench on the Western front during World War I. One officer takes reports of the fighting over a field telephone while the officer on the left jots it down and issues new orders.

Life in the Trenches: A World War I Photo Gallery

Aspirin pills.

7 Drugs that Changed the World

Photo of the antacid Tums

How Do Antacids Work?

Blackboard inscribed with scientific formulas and calculations in physics and mathematics

The World Science Festival’s Pioneers in Science

A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000

14 Tough Questions Answered

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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

World Data Locator Map: Australia

Is Australia an Island?

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

Panoramic view of moai, Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile

8 of the World’s Most-Remote Islands

Black widow spider

9 of the World’s Deadliest Spiders

Ahura Mazda - relief of the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda at the ancient ruins of Persepolis in Iran. Also known as Ormazd Zoroastrianism,

Which Religion Is the Oldest?

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Uncover some common notions on the medical and surgical care during the American Civil War, with a focus on the necessity of limb amputation

Uncover some common notions on the medical and surgical care during the American Civil War, with a focus on the necessity of limb amputation

Overview of medicine in the American Civil War and the use of such procedures as...

Video: © Civil War Trust (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

How Marie Curie revolutionized battlefield medicine

How Marie Curie revolutionized battlefield medicine

During World War I Marie Curie developed a fleet of mobile radiological labs to treat...

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

How antibiotics saved lives during World War II

How antibiotics saved lives during World War II

Learn more about the development of antibiotics and their use in World War II.

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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medic training

medic training

Military personnel undergoing medic training.

U.S. Army Europe

Army helicopter retrieving an injured soldier to be transported to a mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) during the Korean War, July 1951.

Army helicopter retrieving an injured soldier to be transported to a mobile army...

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