Abstract
Today few of us would agree with Hippocrates, who said that is the only proper school for the surgeon. Nevertheless, wars, as a rule, have furthered the progress of the healing art. All branches of medical science have been benefited. The original work of Larrey during the Napoleonic wars was great. He was the first to amputate successfully at the hip. He established first aid and was the first to use ambulances. Esmarch described, during the Franco-Prussian War, the subject of wound excision, practically the debridement of today. The Boer War showed us the benefits of mass antityphoid inoculation; while the advances made in the prevention and care of yellow fever by Reed, Carroll and Gorgas are the result of the Spanish-American War. It is premature for any one to predict what changes in medicine due to the recent great war will in the future be recognized as progress.
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