Long before modern hospitals, medical ambulances or high-tech operating theatres, there were military doctors operating in extreme conditions, improvising cures in the midst of battle and developing techniques that would end up changing medicine forever.The history of Spanish military health care is also the story of how the war forced to accelerate medical advances, create pioneer hospitals and develop surgical instruments that today form part …
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Long before modern hospitals, medical ambulances or high-tech operating theatres, there were military doctors operating in extreme conditions, improvising cures in the midst of battle and developing techniques that would end up changing medicine forever.The history of Spanish military health care is also the story of how the war forced to accelerate medical advances, create pioneer hospitals and develop surgical instruments that today form part …