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Military Medicine Through Time


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Medical lessons learned during wars, along with perpetual advances in civilian treatment, have fueled an ever-improving system of military medicine. During the past 150 years of major conflicts—from the Civil War through the recent war in Iraq—American military medicine in particular has evolved from a pre-antiseptic, pre-antibiotic age when disease was the greatest killer, drugs did more harm than good, and surgeries took place wherever possible, to a state-of-the-art military healthcare system that boasts the highest survival rate of any modern army's medical apparatus. Here, take a tour through military medicine's history and see if you can interpret archival photographs shot on and off the battlefield. To launch this interactive, click on the image at left.—Lexi Krock

   

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