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DURING the winter campaign of 1914–15 a number of soldiers fighting” in the trenches Jn Flan de/s became disabled from the effects of cold and wet on their feet. t The, condition is to rbe, distinguished, from, true, frost-bite, in which severe cqld causes necrosis or death of the tissues; obut though this may occur, it is infrequent in trench frost-bite, the characteristic symptoms of which are Swelling, pain, and disturbance of sensation in the part affected. For this reason e1 suggests, the name “frigorism” or “ frigidism” for this condition, corresponding with “froidure,” used by several French writers.
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âœOn the Prevention of âFrost-Biteâ and other Effects of Cold.â Journ. Roy. Army Med. Corps, May, 1915.
Lancet, September 11, 1915, p. 595.
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HEWLETT, R. Trench “Frost-Bite” . Nature 96, 262 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096262c0
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