Wartime medical advancements

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  1. 2. When soldiers had bad dental hygiene, they would develop an oral disease called what?
  2. 5. _____One of the most common causes of morality other than warfare itself
  3. 6. Tooth____ became a common substitute for toothpaste because it was easier to carry
  4. 10. during surgery_______to remove shrapnel from the head
  5. 12. magnetic resonance imaging utilizes the hydrogen atoms in our bodies and using radio waves to detect their locations
  6. 13. Trains converted to wards, pharmacies and operating rooms were called ______trains
  7. 17. ______kits were carried by medics into war
  8. 19. Post-traumatic stress disorder
  9. 20. ______ surgery, a surgical specialty focused on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves, including their supporting structures and vascular supply
  10. 21. Cardiac_______-devices that apply an electric charge or current to the heart to restore a normal heartbeat
  11. 23. Lewis Yealland, tried to cure it by shocking them applying______
  12. 25. Abriviation for mobile army surgical hospital
  13. 26. an antibiotic drug accidentally discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1982
  14. 27. ______had a particularly high impact on soldier mortality rates because of how easy the disease spread often infecting whole military camps and mobilized troops
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  1. 1. (AE)
  2. 3. The woman who invented the mobile x-ray unit
  3. 4. a computed tomography scan uses ionizing radiation like x-ray scans but uses a rotating x-ray beam that can capture a 3D image of the body
  4. 7. Due to advancements in artillery and chemical warfare many soldiers were left permanently______
  5. 8. _____equipment was very expensive and hard to raise funds for
  6. 9. The blue mass pill was used as a _____
  7. 11. Atherosclerosis - a disease of the _____
  8. 14. A deadly disease spread by mosquitoes
  9. 15. A drug used to cure and help treat Malaria
  10. 16. invented the plastic surgery technique called 'tubed pedical'
  11. 18. ____tooth brushes were invented to help prevent trench Mouth and became a common household item
  12. 19. ______ were used for open breaks
  13. 22. _____warfare that made WW1 especially brutal
  14. 24. Pins and Metal _____ were used to heal broken bones