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Medicine: Improvisation, Evolution and Innovation
The Spanish Civil War was also notable for a number of medical developments that occurred during the conflict. It was in Spain that the first mobile blood bank services came into being, when in August 1936, blood from the institute set up by Frederic Durán-Jordà in Barcelona was delivered to the Aragón front in a converted fish truck. However, just few weeks later in San Sebastian on Spain's northern coast, Carlos Elósegui Sarasola established a similar service in the Insurgent Zone . Advances also took place in the treatment of fractures, with Spanish surgeons that included Josep Trueta and Manuel Bastos Ansart at the forefront in the further development of the closed plaster method.Bastos Ansart, M., Algunos aspectos clínicos de las heridas por arma de fuego (Barcelona, 1936). and other referencve for trueta