Skip to content- Camp feverEpidemic typhus, a louse-borne bacterial disease that followed armies, prisons, ships and refugee columns wherever people were cold, crowded and unable to wash or change clothes.
- CapsariusA Roman soldier who gave first aid to the wounded, named for the case (capsa) of dressings he carried. A trained legionary, not a non-combatant.
- Casualty clearing stationThe British and Commonwealth medical unit of the First World War that sat between the front-line aid posts and the base hospitals, where the wounded were sorted, operated on and sent on.
- Cold-water immersionWhat happens to a body that goes into cold water, in four overlapping stages, and why a life jacket was never enough.
