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paralysis
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Ross, Donald
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Savage, David
Savage, Karen
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schizophrenia
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Sea, Private A.J.
Second World War
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induction
see also
convulsions; fits
Semmelweis, Ignaz
Servelle, Marcel
sewage treatment
sewing up
blood vessels
sutures
sex change operations, female to male
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Shaw, Mike
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shrapnel
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Simpson, James
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Smith, Dr
Snow, John
spectators
Spence, James
Spitfires
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Spreckley, Lieutenant William
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steroids
Stowell Park
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sugar
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Superhuman
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see also
frock coats
surgical masks
Surpanakha
survival rates, transplant surgery
sutures
catgut
triangulation method
syphilis
T cells
helper
killer
Tagliacozzi, Gaspare
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thalamus
Thomas, E. Donnall
Thompson, Geraldine
ticks
Time
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tooth transplants
Toronto General Hospital
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transplant surgery
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hand
heart
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trepanning
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tumours
Turin, Italy
Turin, siege of
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United States
United States Army, 160th United States General Army Hospital
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University of Pest
urine
van Brackle, Shirley
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great saphenous
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Venice
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left
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Vermont
Vesalius, Andreas
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Vichy government
Victoria, Queen
Vienna
Vienna General Hospital
Viennese Medical Journal
von Bergmann, Ernst
war wounds
facial
see also
battlefields; field hospitals
Washington, George
Washkansky, Louis
water, immersion in near-freezing
Watts, James
Wellington bombers
Wells, H.G.
West, Frederick
Westaby, Steven
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destruction
Wilkerson, Dr
Williams, Edward
X-rays
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Your Life in Their Hands
(TV series)
Ypres
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