Medical Treatment

We would only have a single field hospital outside our our reserve trenches. Each field hospital was just a simple medium to large sized huts where they could hold an approximately 1000 people. each one was run by a matron and a certain amount of nurses to help. Our medical treatment in the trenches were very low grade. I can understand this because its hard to get the medical supplies in but sometimes it would be so bad that we wouldnt get treated because the hospitals and reserve trenches were already filled up. But most of the time if someone was extremely hurt the hospital or reserve trenches would take them in and give them large amounts of morphine to compromise with the pain. They would also have opium to make the patient sleep when they needed to perform surgerys. If there ever was an infected wound the hospital would often put on Iodin as a powerful disinfectant. There were tons of other medicine but most were just herb medical mixtures and were very primitive. Out on the trenches when we could not get to the reserve trenches easily we had only two small bottles of rubbing alchaol to treat our wounds and often times the applying the medicine would be more painful than the wound its self .