Field Medical Card, May 1917.

Field Medical Card, May 1917.

World War, 1914-1918--Medical care.

Wallace, M. Blanche (Mary Blanche), 1892-1979.

Medicine, Military.

Military nursing.

Great Britain. Army. No. 22 General Hospital (Camiers, France)

Harvard Surgical Unit

As wounded soldiers were evacuated from the battlefield for hospital treatment, each was issued a field medical card for identification with a brief diagnosis or assessment; the card was in a window envelope and tied to the individual, with red-edged envelopes used to denote severe or urgent cases.

Wallace, M. Blanche (Mary Blanche), 1892-1979. Scrapbooks, 1916-1924 (inclusive).

1917-05

text

1 card and 1 envelope.

English.

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H MS b63.1, v.2.

Gift of M. Blanche Wallace to the Archives of Harvard Medical School, 1971.