World War I Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/category/medical-history/world-war-i/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 11:12:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Bringing X-rays to the front https://bshm.org.uk/bringing-x-rays-to-the-front/ https://bshm.org.uk/bringing-x-rays-to-the-front/#respond Mon, 08 Jan 2024 11:12:31 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=17709 Edwin Aird describes how Marie Curie created radiological cars to take X-rays to the battlefront in Word War I. In 1914 at the beginning of the First World War, Paris was under threat of invasion from Germany. The situation was sufficiently alarming that the French Government moved to Bordeaux. And Marie Curie moved the precious […]

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