Army medicine during the First World War

Abstract

The article explains the development and functioning of an essential military component - medical support wartime - evacuation system. Describes the concept of conservative evacuation, developed in the Russian army at the beginning of the last century, shows the military medical services' efforts to expand military health care and improve the system of evacuation during World War I. It is noted that, despite significant efforts, the evacuation remained the weakest part of Russian military medicine and does not reflect the scale of sanitary losses. © 2021 Izdatel'stvo Meditsina. All rights reserved.