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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
- Date:
- 1942
- Reference:
- RAMC/1437
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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