Modern battlefield medicine. ... They stop for lectures at Bloody Lane, where 5,600 were mowed down in three hours along an 800-yard road. They can walk in seconds across Burnside Bridge, ...

How a bloody battlefield inspired a pacifist to create the Red Cross. Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

How a Bloody Civil War Battle Changed Modern Medicine. 3 minute read. From the November 4, 1947, ... Maryland, were killed or wounded. A dirt road along the center of the battlefield, ...

The history of innovations in battlefield wound treatment is both grim and thin, showing that flawed ideas endure longer than they should, and confirming that lack of good sense has killed many. It… ...

He added: "This is a hugely significant battlefield. Almost 10,000 people, about 7,000 of whom were Irish Catholics, lost their lives here in a few hours in 1691.

But many “modern-thinking” Ukrainian brigades continue doing it regardless, says Ms Nazarova, using personal contacts with local blood-donation centres. The result is uneven levels of care ...