Excerpt from Surgical Lessons of the Great War: Motto: "Pecowsic"
Early in 1914 the Medical Corps of every European army was serenely confident of its ability to deal most competently with battle casualties, and rightly so. Through actual experience and keen observation in the Russo-Japanese, Boer, and Balkan Wars the effect of missiles on human tissues was well known and understood. The character of war wounds and their treatment had been thoroughly studied and completely mastered. Advances in surgical knowledge and skill had not only made possible the prevention of infection with its consequent delayed healing, disfigurement, and mortality, but had also so perfected operative technique that regions of the body previously deemed inaccessible could be entered with impunity. New devices, compact and portable, made it feasible to operate aseptically in the open field far from established hospitals. The organization and training of the Medical Corps had been brought to a degree of perfection never before equalled. Transportation facilities for the wounded, especially the motor ambulance, were so efficient, rapid, and elastic that it was felt unlimited casualties could be promptly handled without confusion or congestion.
In the first weeks of the great war the Medical Departments functioned smoothly.
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