Author: United States. Surgeon-General's Office
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ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War: Training, by W.N. Bispham. 1927
Author: United States. Surgeon-General's Office
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Fever of War
Author: Carol R Byerly
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814789633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced. Through medical officers' memoirs and diaries, official reports, scientific articles, and other original sources, Byerly tells a grave tale about the limits of modern medicine and warfare. The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers who, armed with new knowledge and technologies of modern medicine, had an inflated sense of their ability to control disease. The conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front soon outflanked medical knowledge by creating an environment where the influenza virus could mutate to a lethal strain. This new flu virus soon left medical officers’ confidence in tatters as thousands of soldiers and trainees died under their care. They also were unable to convince the War Department to reduce the crowding of troops aboard ships and in barracks which were providing ideal environments for the epidemic to thrive. After the war, and given their helplessness to control influenza, many medical officers and military leaders began to downplay the epidemic as a significant event for the U. S. army, in effect erasing this dramatic story from the American historical memory.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814789633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced. Through medical officers' memoirs and diaries, official reports, scientific articles, and other original sources, Byerly tells a grave tale about the limits of modern medicine and warfare. The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers who, armed with new knowledge and technologies of modern medicine, had an inflated sense of their ability to control disease. The conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front soon outflanked medical knowledge by creating an environment where the influenza virus could mutate to a lethal strain. This new flu virus soon left medical officers’ confidence in tatters as thousands of soldiers and trainees died under their care. They also were unable to convince the War Department to reduce the crowding of troops aboard ships and in barracks which were providing ideal environments for the epidemic to thrive. After the war, and given their helplessness to control influenza, many medical officers and military leaders began to downplay the epidemic as a significant event for the U. S. army, in effect erasing this dramatic story from the American historical memory.
A History of Dentistry in the US Army to World War II
Author: John M. Hyson
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160821592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
A detailed history of the development of military dentistry in the United States, from beginnings in the early 17th century, through the professionalization of dentistry in the 19th century, dental care on both sides of the Civil War, the establishment of the US Army Dental Corps in 1909, and the expansion of the Corps through World War I and afterward, to the verge of the Second World War.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160821592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
A detailed history of the development of military dentistry in the United States, from beginnings in the early 17th century, through the professionalization of dentistry in the 19th century, dental care on both sides of the Civil War, the establishment of the US Army Dental Corps in 1909, and the expansion of the Corps through World War I and afterward, to the verge of the Second World War.
The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War
Author: United States. Surgeon-General's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description
The Medical Department of the U.S. Army in the World War
Author: U.S. Surgeon-general's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ear
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ear
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Stand To!
Author:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
Author:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description