Wound Shock. The bane of medical officers in France during World War I. “wound shock” is a condition of “lowered vitality” which follows wounds, even trivial ones.

Today’s soldiers in Ukraine have dug trenches winding through the 600-plus miles of the front line and are sustaining injuries similar to those of WWI.

Anthony Butenas, who served in Company E, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division, was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action on July 18, 1918, in France, when he was 24 ...

Plastic surgery. Back in World War I, plastic surgery emerged as a way to treat soldiers with facial injuries. “The modern idea of plastic surgery and the techniques used today originated in WWI ...