Surgery

New technology shredded limbs, ripped open flesh and burned people. So doctors and nurses needed new surgical techniques.

Morphine and chloroform were available during WW1 so they were able to keep patients calm and comfortable.

New techniques came about in facial surgery and burn treatment. Which led to advances in prosthetic limbs, to help meet the needs of amputees.

Anesthesia was used to put people under to perform surgeries.

They invented a flexible chain saw to spare nerves and muscles.