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What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.
What's wrong doctor?
TABSTABS collection
On the back of this excellent portrait is written: Siedlice Kriegslazarett. January 1944
At times like these, it is when societies understand the true value of their health services. The work of doctors, surgeons, paramedics, nurses and the importance of having hospitals and operating rooms to preserve the most important value after people's lives: their health.
I want to use these days of forced confinement at home to start a new thread to gradually upload a couple of hundred photographs and images related to this topic.
It is my collection of images from the Wehrmacht health services and many of them from the Russian campaign.
I do not intend to make an erudite and systematic study, since I had not written anything on the subject and there will undoubtedly be many fantastic threads about degrees, emblems, etc, etc. It is about sharing the images that I have been gathering over the years with all my friends on the forum.
Oberarzt shoulder straps.
I trust that this will help us entertain ourselves in these difficult days.
I hope that we all learn something and please feel free to share any images related to the topic.
I will improvise every day, but approximately I will upload images of vaccines, doctors, paramedics, ambulances, nurses, hospitals, wounded, convalescent ...
Our species has faced very serious situations on other occasions, as the members of this forum well know. Let's trust our scientists and our healthcare systems. Once again as after the Spanish flu in 1918 and with the help of God, we will prevail.
Best wishes to all members of the forum and their families.
I hope you enjoy.
Santi.
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03-19-2020 08:21 PM
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The importance of vaccination.
As we all know a vaccine is "a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.
The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and to further recognize and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future. Vaccines use to be prophylactic: to prevent or ameliorate the effects of a future infection by a natural or "wild" pathogen"
Soldbuch. Pag. 9
Page 9 of the soldbuch was used to record the vaccines and their dates for each German soldier:
"Pocken Erfolg" (Smallpox), "Thyfus" (Typhus), "Paratyphus" (paratyphoid), "Cholera" (cholera), "Ruht" (dysentery), etc.
The subsections were used to record the date of inoculation as well as the doses of each vaccine or treatment.
Thanks to our friend René for this image of his latest? thread
Russia
TABSTABS collection
Russia, 1941
Last edited by TabsTabs1964; 03-26-2020 at 11:45 PM.
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Oberarzt shoulder straps.
Hello Santi,
The shouldboards that you're showing are for a Stabsarzt (= Hauptmann), not for an Oberarzt (= Oberleutnant).
The Oberarzt has only one "pip" on each shouldboard, not two...
Nice thread...
Thanks
The sacrifice of life is a huge sacrifice, there is only one that is more terrible, the sacrifice of honor
In Memoriam :
Laurent Huart (1964-2008)
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Thanks Jean Philipp. I think I will need your help more times in my amateur knowledge of shouldboards.
Santi.
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Paramedics (Sanitäter)
Since I'm not a specialist in the organizatión of the Military medical services (Truppensanitätsdienste), I follow the descriptions of the German military doctor Peter Bamm (pseudonym of the doctor Kurt Emmrich, 1897-1975) in his unforgettable book of memories "The Invisible Flag", which is for me the best and most enjoyable description of life in the Wehrmacht medical service units. I highly recommend it to everyone.
Sanitäts Patch
Sanitäter shouldboards
1940
Each trained paramedic had a set of medical bags. These were similar in shape to undivided ammunition bags, but slightly larger.
The one on the left side contained bandage material (50 bandages, 6 triangular bandanas, an elastic bandage), a cotton pack (250 gr.) And a pack of gauze pads, dissection forceps, probe scissors and stylet; the one on the right side contained a bottle of hydrogen peroxide or better tablets to prepare it at the moment, some medications such as tincture of iodine, zinc splints, formaldehyde ointment (to disinfect), medications (aspirin, pyramidon, tanalbumin, and bismuth subnitrate).
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Slightly off topic but good illustrative photo of a Sonderfürhrer that you posted.
Todd
Former U.S. Army Tanker.
"Best job I ever had."
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