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Face transplants

  • Some of the best masks were made by Anna Coleman Ladd

  • These masks would fall apart a couple years in the future

  • No masks survived to this day

  • Anna Ladd got so good she could recreate a face from a photo

  • She would take plaster casts in order to recreate cheekbones or eye sockets.

  • Out of nearly 3000 people with their faces blown off, only 185 got masks.

  • French vehicles were being built to have x-rays.

  • 15% of all British forces were killed. 

  • Other medicines included Chloroform, an anesthetic which was not very safe due to the fact that you may not wake up. 

  • WW1 was one of the first wars in america to include women

  • Medicine was even more valuable in WW1 because of the introduction of gas attacks and scarier artillery. Oh, and also tanks, that’s important.

  • Some of the doctors in WW1 included: Elsie Inglis, Louisa Garrett, Agnes Bennett, and Harold 

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