The Progression of Medicine in Battle

I found the progression of medicine and how the army dealt with it very interesting. The fact that the people who were sent with the army to care for them according to Anderson "after a few weeks in the military "we found our ignorance was sublime"" is amazing due to the fact that these people were trained medically, but obviously not specifically enough as Anderson goes on to point out. It was interesting to see how the surgeons and medical personnel learned as time went on. The way that hygiene was taught and how people such as Lieutenant Kemp taught the other soldiers how to keep wounds clean and to keep the hospital corps out of the way is important. It shows that no one was really prepared for what they found on the battlefield. The conditions were obviously not the best to deal with so to see how things progressed grabbed my interest. This is also important due to the fact that every war is different and no conditions were ever the same.