La sanidad y la cirugía en la Guerra Civil española

Abstract

The Civil War is an exciting historical topic. In addition, one of its most important and devastating aspects is the treatment of those injured by the fighting and of civilian victims, who needed the care of all the doctors that existed in Spain and specifically surgeons. After those used during the Great War, the methods that were put into practice during the Spanish Civil War led to an important development of surgical techniques.This research constitutes a general approach to the health care received by the large contingent of wounded that produced the largest war conflict that Spain has had to face in its history. Knowing how they evolved and how they were organized allows us to know the contributions to health and war surgery made by our medical staff, which is the main reason for this research.By focusing on an important but forgotten aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the evolution of medical and surgical care for those wounded during the conflict, it is intended to cover an information gap on the history of Spanish Medicine and Surgery, which in the Most publications and studies are always almost blank, as if it had not existed, there were no data on the matter, or it was not relevant...