The University of Toronto’s lasting contribution to war surgery: how Maj. L. Bruce Robertson fundamentally transformed thinking toward blood transfusion during the First World War

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The University of Toronto's lasting contribution to war surgery: how Maj. L. Bruce Robertson fundamentally transformed thinking toward blood transfusion during the First World War

The Canadian Army Medical Corps affair of 1916 and Surgeon General Guy Carleton Jones

“…4 Canadian General Hospital who felt sidelined from the war because they were deployed with Imperial, but not Canadian, forces in Salonika. 5 Hughes saw an opportunity to solve both problems when he appointed Bruce as a special inspector with the rank of colonel. He arranged for Bruce to report to a committee in order to distance himself from the plan to remove the Surgeon General.…”

Calgary, Edmonton and the University of Alberta: the extraordinary medical mobilization by Canada’s newest province

“…This breakthrough would subsequently be recognized as "the most important medical advance to come from the First World War" by the Royal Army Medical Corps. 7,8 The No. 8 Canadian Field Ambulance was one of the very few that returned as a complete unit in March of 1919.…”