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How World War I created the foundation of modern plastic surgery
World War I produced tens of thousands of soldiers with severe facial injuries. Trench warfare exposed faces to bullets, ...
The First World War, which lasted from 1914 until 1918, ushered in a new kind of mechanized warfare. Bodies were maimed, burned and gassed, and as many as 280,000 combatants were left with ghastly ...
Single image from group of six on page plate depicting WW1 plastic surgery cases at the King George Military Hospital 1917-1918 taken; by Dr Albert Norman, Scientific phototgrapher.
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