A hundred years ago, faculties of medicine from across Canada raised medical units to deploy overseas in support of Canadian troops and their allies in the First World War. The units (field ambulances, stationary hospitals and general hospitals) treated hundreds of thousands of casualties at a rate that is unimaginable today. Just as in today’s wars, medical care was given to injured combatants without distinction of their status as friends or enemies. Surgical care was provided at the highest level, often exceeding that available in Canada. Surgical innovations were brought home after the war. Then as now, severely injured veterans continued to carry the effects of the war long after the conflict was forgotten by the rest of us. This topic collection analyzes the contributions made by Canadian universities to the medical care of Canada’s soldiers in the First World War. CJS intends to continue the Canadian Universities series until the centenary of the Armistice.
Canadian Universities
A uniquely Canadian military moment: Sam Hughes and the No. 7 General Hospital, 1915–1916
Other First World War articles
Somewhere in France (9 April 17): a centenary review of medical arrangements at Vimy Ridge
Origins of the Canadian school of surgery
Two heroes of the class of onety-seven: Part I (citation and abstract only)
Two heroes of the Class of Onety-Seven: Part II (citation and abstract only)
Wounds of the abdomen. Part 1: In war (citation and abstract only)
Further remembrances of that revered anatomist, Dr. J. C. Boileau Grant (citation and abstract only)