Antiseptics in the First World War

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

What are you more scared of – a bullet or bacteria? To a soldier on the Western Front his greatest enemy was arguably not the German soldier firing at him from the trenches opposite, but the threat of infection to his wounds. 

Read about the important advances in antiseptics during the First World War: http://socsi.in/aPLOQ

Image: First World War hospital in Birtley, County Durham, catalogue reference: MUN 5/157.