The Journal-Lancet, Vol. XXXV, No. 5, March 1, 1915

March 1915. The Great War grinds on in the trenches of France and Belgium, and medical professionals across the Western world are confronting wounds never seen before, the terrible efficiency of modern weaponry, and debates about treatment that the war itself would soon resolve. This issue of The Journal-Lancet captures medicine at a inflection point: pre-antibiotic, pre-modern trauma surgery, yet rapidly evolving under the pressure of total war. The volume includes discussions of pediatric care, contemporary treatment methodologies, and the professional discourse among physicians grappling with both ancient ailments and new horrors. For historians of medicine, this primary source offers a window into what doctors believed, what they questioned, and what they took for granted in a year that would prove pivotal for medical science.