When World War I broke out in France, in August 1914, getting a wounded soldier from the battlefield to a hospital required horse-drawn wagons or mules with baskets on either side.

Albin, himself a World War II combat medic, tracked the story of Union Private James Winchell, a member of Berdan’s First United States Sharpshooters. Winchell was one of 3,107 Union soldiers wounded ...

The metrics from World War I are horrific. In all, there were 37 million military and civilian casualties — 16 million dead and 21 million wounded. Never before had a conflict brought such ...

Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War began. Using case studies of two wounded soldiers, a private and a general, an anesthesiologist reports on its early use.