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How Cordelia Changed Military Health Forever

Cordelia Harvey changed the way soldiers are treated when they get wounded, and the conditions of the hospitals that they stay in forever. This is shown by the cleaner and more organized military hospitals in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and beyond.

(Picture of Military Hospital Dining Room, in France, between 1917 & 1920) Source: Library of Congress

(Picture of Military Hospital Kitchen, in France, between 1917 & 1920) Source: Library of Congress.

After the Civil War, the practice of sending soldiers home to their respective countries for healing became very common, and as World War II was going on, doctors made sure the conditions that the soldiers stayed in were great.

(WWII Evacuation Hospital) Source: WWII US Medical Research Centre.

(WWII Station Hospital in Australia) Source: WWII US Medical Research Centre

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