Conditions requiring treatment on the Western Front Flashcards
1
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Three types of ill health
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- Trench fever
- Trench foot
- Shell-shock
2
Q
Treatment: Trench fever
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Passing electric current through infected area was effective.
3
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Treatment: Trench foot
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Soldiers advised to keep clean but worst cases, amputation.
4
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Treatment: Shell-shock
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Not well understood.
5
Q
What was Trench fever?
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Caused by body lice and included flu-like symptoms including high temperature.
6
Q
What was Trench foot?
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Caused by soldiers standing in mud/waterlogged trenches.
7
Q
What was Shell-shock?
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caused by stressful conditions of war
- Symptoms included tiredness, nightmares, headaches and uncontrollable shacking
8
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Prevention: Trench fever
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- Clothes disinfected and delousing stations were set up
- Affected 0.5 million.
9
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Prevention: Trench foot
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- Changing socks + keeping feet dry and rubbing whale oil into feet.
10
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Prevention: Shell-shock
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- Rest and some received treatment in UK.
- Affected 80,000 and some were shot!
11
Q
Weapons of war:
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- Mustard Gas
- Phosgene Gas
- Chlorine Gas
- Shrapnel
- Rifles
- Machine Guns
- Artillery
12
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Mustard Gas
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- Odourless gas,
- Worked in 12 hours.
- Caused blisters, burns the skin easily.
13
Q
Phosgene Gas
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- Faster acting than Chlorine but with similar effects.
- Could kill within 2 days.
14
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Chlorine Gas
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- Led to death by suffocation.
- 1915, gas masks given to all British soldiers.
15
Q
Shrapnel
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- Caused maximum damage exploded mid-air above enemy.
- Killed/injured.
16
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Rifles
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- Fired one at a time/loaded from a cartridge case creating rapid fire.
17
Q
Artillery
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- Bombardments were continuous,
- Artillery fire caused half of all causalities.
18
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Machine Guns
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- Fired 500 rounds a minute.
- Pierced organs and fracture bones.
