Author: Gerard van Swieten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Army Medical Department, 1775-1818
Author: Mary C. Gillett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A Proper Sense of Honor
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 144299701X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 144299701X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Rural Poems
Author: Salomon Gessner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prose poems, German
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prose poems, German
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell
Author: Thomas P. Lowry
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811711536
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Explores the secret life of the men in blue and gray.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811711536
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Explores the secret life of the men in blue and gray.
Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Author: Thomas Power Lowry
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803229593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
One of the greatest challenges faced by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis on their 1804?6 Corps of Discovery expedition was that of medical emergencies on the trail. Without an attending physician, even routine ailments and injuries could have tragic consequences for the expedition?s success and the safety of its members. Of these dangers, the most insidious and potentially devastating was the slow, painful, and oftentimes fatal ravage of venereal disease. ø Physician Thomas P. Lowry delves into the world of nineteenth-century medicine, uncovering the expedition?s very real fear of venereal disease. Lewis and Clark knew they were unlikely to prevent their men from forming sexual liaisons on the trail, so they prepared for the consequences of encounters with potentially infected people, as well as the consequences of preexisting disease, by stocking themselves with medicine and the latest scientific knowledge from the best minds in America. Lewis and Clark?s expedition encountered Native peoples who experienced venereal disease as a result of liaisons with French, British, Spanish, and Canadian travelers and had their own methods for curing its victims, or at least for easing the pain it inflicted. ø Lowry?s careful study of the explorers? journals sheds new light on this neglected aspect of the expedition, showing in detail how sex and venereal disease affected the men and their mission, and describes how diverse peoples faced a common threat with the best knowledge and tools at their disposal.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803229593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
One of the greatest challenges faced by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis on their 1804?6 Corps of Discovery expedition was that of medical emergencies on the trail. Without an attending physician, even routine ailments and injuries could have tragic consequences for the expedition?s success and the safety of its members. Of these dangers, the most insidious and potentially devastating was the slow, painful, and oftentimes fatal ravage of venereal disease. ø Physician Thomas P. Lowry delves into the world of nineteenth-century medicine, uncovering the expedition?s very real fear of venereal disease. Lewis and Clark knew they were unlikely to prevent their men from forming sexual liaisons on the trail, so they prepared for the consequences of encounters with potentially infected people, as well as the consequences of preexisting disease, by stocking themselves with medicine and the latest scientific knowledge from the best minds in America. Lewis and Clark?s expedition encountered Native peoples who experienced venereal disease as a result of liaisons with French, British, Spanish, and Canadian travelers and had their own methods for curing its victims, or at least for easing the pain it inflicted. ø Lowry?s careful study of the explorers? journals sheds new light on this neglected aspect of the expedition, showing in detail how sex and venereal disease affected the men and their mission, and describes how diverse peoples faced a common threat with the best knowledge and tools at their disposal.
Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army ...
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
The British Soldier in America
Author: Sylvia R. Frey
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN: 0292749279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This social history of the common British soldier in the American Revolution dispels myths and sheds new light on who fought for the Crown—and why. In this extensive study, Sylvia Frey surveys recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs to provide insight into the soldier’s “life and mind.” In the process she reveals a great deal about the common soldier: his social origins and occupational background, his size, age, and general physical condition, his personal economics and daily existence. Her findings dispel the traditional assumption that the army was made up largely of criminals and social misfits. Special attention is given to soldiering as an occupation, and the moral and material factors which induced men to accept the high risks. Focusing on two of the major campaigns of the war—the Northern Campaign which culminated at Saratoga and the Southern Campaign which ended at Yorktown—Frey describes the human face of war, with particular emphasis on the physical and psychic strains of campaigning in the eighteenth century. Frey rejects the traditional assumption that soldiers were motivated to fight exclusively by fear and force and argues instead that the primary motivation to battle was generated by regimental esprit, which in the eighteenth century substituted for patriotism. After analyzing the sources of esprit, she concludes that it was the sustaining force for morale in a long and discouraging war.
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN: 0292749279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This social history of the common British soldier in the American Revolution dispels myths and sheds new light on who fought for the Crown—and why. In this extensive study, Sylvia Frey surveys recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs to provide insight into the soldier’s “life and mind.” In the process she reveals a great deal about the common soldier: his social origins and occupational background, his size, age, and general physical condition, his personal economics and daily existence. Her findings dispel the traditional assumption that the army was made up largely of criminals and social misfits. Special attention is given to soldiering as an occupation, and the moral and material factors which induced men to accept the high risks. Focusing on two of the major campaigns of the war—the Northern Campaign which culminated at Saratoga and the Southern Campaign which ended at Yorktown—Frey describes the human face of war, with particular emphasis on the physical and psychic strains of campaigning in the eighteenth century. Frey rejects the traditional assumption that soldiers were motivated to fight exclusively by fear and force and argues instead that the primary motivation to battle was generated by regimental esprit, which in the eighteenth century substituted for patriotism. After analyzing the sources of esprit, she concludes that it was the sustaining force for morale in a long and discouraging war.
Revolutionary Medicine, 1700-1800
Author: C. Keith Wilbur
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780762774616
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Chronicles the treatments and theories of American medicine in the 18th century.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780762774616
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Chronicles the treatments and theories of American medicine in the 18th century.
"Some System of the Nature Here Proposed"
Author: Stephen C. Craig
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"A regimental surgeon promoted to hospital director in the War of 1812, Joseph Lovell, MD, became the first Army staff-level surgeon general. This volume in Borden's history of medicine series is an in-depth analysis of how Lovell's report on Army medicine just after the war gave rise to innovations, from focus on the soldier's welfare and preventive medicine to accurate epidemiology and experimental research, that formed the organizational and functional principles of today's professional and effective Medical Department"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"A regimental surgeon promoted to hospital director in the War of 1812, Joseph Lovell, MD, became the first Army staff-level surgeon general. This volume in Borden's history of medicine series is an in-depth analysis of how Lovell's report on Army medicine just after the war gave rise to innovations, from focus on the soldier's welfare and preventive medicine to accurate epidemiology and experimental research, that formed the organizational and functional principles of today's professional and effective Medical Department"--Provided by publisher.
Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description