Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index An illustration showing a variety of wounds from the "Fieldmanual for the treatment of wounds" ("Feldbuch der Wundarznei") by Hans von Gersdorff, (1517). Battlefield medicine is the treatment of soldiers in or near an area of combat. Medicine has been greatly advanced by procedures that were developed in order to treat the wounds inflicted during combat. Among the notable medical advances made on the battlefield: The practice of Triage, by Baron Dominique Jean Larrey during the Napoleonic Wars. Advances in surgery - especially amputation, during the Napoleonic Wars. The first practical method for transporting blood, by Norman Bethune during the Spanish Civil War. See also: History of medicine, Timeline of medicine and medical technology This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.