Three photographs of an operation at a Royal Air Force Field Hospital in the Western Desert (Egypt) during which an aircraft winch was used to stretch the spine of the patient into the correct position before the application of the plaster cast

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1942
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RAMC/1437
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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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Three photographs of an operation at a Royal Air Force Field Hospital in the Western Desert (Egypt) during which an aircraft winch was used to stretch the spine of the patient into the correct position before the application of the plaster cast. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1942

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