Have you ever wondered what type of medical inventions came about during WWII. Well there were plenty of outstanding inventions that came out during WWII that helped nurses throughout the war. They were all made in their own special ways and were used to help people in different ways as well. This paper is to inform you of the inventions, how the nurses helped, and how the inventions came about.
There were a variety of medicine inventions that came about during WWII. The main one and the one that we most often use today was penicillin. Penicillin is an antibiotic that is use to treat an infection so it becomes less threatening so that it will either go away or so that it remains stable before you can have an doctor examine further. Another …show more content…
¨There were over 60,000 nurses that served in the war stationed in camps all throughout Europe and the Pacific. (“World War Nurses” 1). These nurses were not trained like the ones today but they certainly knew what they were doing and tried their best to keep all the soldiers alive. The nurses were trained to use all the items they were given from the medicine they were given to tools to amputations. They were also trained to operate on everything from a cut to doing surgery on someone. When they were stationed in the camp they could either work in tents at the camp or they could work out on the battlefield. Of course if they were working out in the fields they were just as vulnerable as the soldiers were. While they were in the fields they expected to carry everything they would need from items to heal wounds to painkillers. These were all things nurses did and were expected to know while in the …show more content…
Sulfanilamide was discovered by an German biochemist. In 1932 he tested red die with a slightly changed chemical makeup and he found that is was effective. He then tried it on his daughter who was dying from a streptococcal infection and noticed she had major improvements and made a full recovery. However penicillin was discovered in a much more different way. Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered germ-killing properties in a secret “mold juice” secreted by penicillium. That would spread to the wound and clean it of the bacteria. He could not produce enough of the penicillin to be used by others so his idea was dismissed. Ten years later another scientist rediscovered his works and brought it to the U.S. where it was so effective that they were able to mass produce it and use it throughout the war. Plasma created a protein salt solution, where the red and white blood cells are suspended. This serves as the proper vitamins that the blood needs to keep you alive. In 1938 Charles Drew found that he could set up a mass blood plasma plant to produce the plasma. Once these were created they were sent out to camps all over Europe. These are the ways some of the medicine was
There were a variety of medicine inventions that came about during WWII. The main one and the one that we most often use today was penicillin. Penicillin is an antibiotic that is use to treat an infection so it becomes less threatening so that it will either go away or so that it remains stable before you can have an doctor examine further. Another …show more content…
¨There were over 60,000 nurses that served in the war stationed in camps all throughout Europe and the Pacific. (“World War Nurses” 1). These nurses were not trained like the ones today but they certainly knew what they were doing and tried their best to keep all the soldiers alive. The nurses were trained to use all the items they were given from the medicine they were given to tools to amputations. They were also trained to operate on everything from a cut to doing surgery on someone. When they were stationed in the camp they could either work in tents at the camp or they could work out on the battlefield. Of course if they were working out in the fields they were just as vulnerable as the soldiers were. While they were in the fields they expected to carry everything they would need from items to heal wounds to painkillers. These were all things nurses did and were expected to know while in the …show more content…
Sulfanilamide was discovered by an German biochemist. In 1932 he tested red die with a slightly changed chemical makeup and he found that is was effective. He then tried it on his daughter who was dying from a streptococcal infection and noticed she had major improvements and made a full recovery. However penicillin was discovered in a much more different way. Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered germ-killing properties in a secret “mold juice” secreted by penicillium. That would spread to the wound and clean it of the bacteria. He could not produce enough of the penicillin to be used by others so his idea was dismissed. Ten years later another scientist rediscovered his works and brought it to the U.S. where it was so effective that they were able to mass produce it and use it throughout the war. Plasma created a protein salt solution, where the red and white blood cells are suspended. This serves as the proper vitamins that the blood needs to keep you alive. In 1938 Charles Drew found that he could set up a mass blood plasma plant to produce the plasma. Once these were created they were sent out to camps all over Europe. These are the ways some of the medicine was