+ WW1 Medicine +
Face transplants
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Some of the best masks were made by Anna Coleman Ladd
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These masks would fall apart a couple years in the future
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No masks survived to this day
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Anna Ladd got so good she could recreate a face from a photo
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She would take plaster casts in order to recreate cheekbones or eye sockets.
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Out of nearly 3000 people with their faces blown off, only 185 got masks.
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French vehicles were being built to have x-rays.
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15% of all British forces were killed.
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Other medicines included Chloroform, an anesthetic which was not very safe due to the fact that you may not wake up.
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WW1 was one of the first wars in america to include women
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Medicine was even more valuable in WW1 because of the introduction of gas attacks and scarier artillery. Oh, and also tanks, that’s important.
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Some of the doctors in WW1 included: Elsie Inglis, Louisa Garrett, Agnes Bennett, and Harold