The health condition of the soldiers in the history of Hungarian Army

Abstract

The military Health Service was always determined by the state of war techniques and medical sciences. During the second half of XIX century a significant development was under way in the modernisation of war tools and in the discoveries in certain field of medicine. The first World War between the Monarchy and the Antant States caused almost unsolvable tasks to the military Health Service on the Russian and Italian fronts. The explosions of the grenades
resulted shattered extended wounds, which were combined with infections and frozen destructions. In this case the therapy was only restricted to amputation. However the greatest casualties were bound to the infection diseases and epidemics by the lack of antibiotics. In the Second World War the state of Health Service were better prepared by technical background and organisation. The catastrophic casualties of the Hungarian Army at the Russian front were basically associated with superiority of enemy with the heavy cold, and the bad outfits and low health conditions of the soldiers. In this critical situation the importance and function of the military trains were primary by the fluently commuting transportation of wounded soldiers from the front line to the home hospitals.