Today is #RemembranceSunday, so I thought I'd share with you the grim medical realities many soldiers faced during #WW1. Here is a photo from 1916 of "trench foot."

This painful condition was brought on when soldiers stood for long periods of time in icy puddles or mud. Among the British, 75,000+ soldiers were taken to the hospital for trench foot. One nurse recalled: “We had a whole ward of them...Their feet were absolutely white, swollen up and dead.” #histmed #veterans #WeRemember