Military Medicine: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century

by McCallum, Jack E.

• ISBN13: 9781851096930
• ISBN10: 1851096930
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-01
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO INFORMATION SERVICES

Summary

This volume highlights the people and scientific developments in military medicine through the ages, concentrating on medical advances that changed both warfare and societies at home.

Author Biography

Jack McCallum, M.D., Ph.D., is a visiting scholar at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Abdominal Injuries in War	p. 1
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)	p. 2
Aeromedical Evacuation	p. 3
Aesculapius	p. 6
Albucasis	p. 7
Alcoholism	p. 7
Ambulances and Transport	p. 9
American Field Service and Other World War I Volunteer Ambulance Services	p. 12
American Revolutionary War	p. 14
Amputation	p. 17
Anesthesiology	p. 19
Anthrax	p. 21
Antisepsis	p. 23
Archigenes of Apamea	p. 25
Asclepiades of Bithynia	p. 26
Asepsis	p. 27
Atabrine	p. 28
Athens, Great Plague of	p. 29
Atropine	p. 29
Aviation Medicine	p. 30
Avicenna (Ibn Sena)	p. 32
Bandaging and Wound Dressing	p. 35
Barber-Surgeons	p. 36
Baromedicine	p. 38
Barton, Clara	p. 39
Beaumont, William	p. 40
Bell, Charles	p. 41
Bergmann, Ernst von	p. 41
Biblical Military Medicine	p. 42
Billings, John Shaw	p. 43
Bilroth, Christian Albert Theodor	p. 45
Blane, Sir Gilbert	p. 46
Blast Injuries	p. 46
Boer War	p. 48
Botulism	p. 50
British Military Medicine	p. 51
Brunschwig, Hieronymus	p. 54
Bullet Wounds and Other Penetrating Injuries from Gunpowder Projectiles	p. 55
Carrel, Alexis	p. 59
Carrel-Dakin Irrigation	p. 60
Casualty Clearing Stations and Staged Evacuation	p. 61
Cauterization	p. 63
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius	p. 64
Chauliac, Guy de	p. 64
Chemical and Biological Warfare	p. 65
Chest Injuries and Surgery	p. 70
Chimborazo Hospital	p. 72
Cholera	p. 73
Church, Benjamin	p. 74
Civil War in the United States	p. 75
Classical Greek Military Medicine	p. 80
Clowes, William	p. 83
Cochran, John	p. 84
Cold Injury and Frostbite	p. 84
Colonial Military and Naval Medicine	p. 86
Combat Fatigue	p. 89
Crile, George Washington	p. 91
Crimean War	p. 92
Crusades	p. 93
Cushing, Harvey Williams	p. 95
Cutbush, Edward	p. 96
DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)	p. 99
Debridement	p. 100
Dengue Fever	p. 101
Dioscorides, Pedacius	p. 102
Disease and Mortality in Colonial America	p. 102
Dix, Dorothea Lynde	p. 105
Dodge Commission and Typhoid Board	p. 105
Dooley, Thomas Anthony	p. 106
Drug Addiction	p. 107
Dysentery	p. 108
Egyptian Military Medicine	p. 111
Fabrizio d'Aquapendente, Geronimo	p. 115
Fabry of Hilden, Wilhelm	p. 116
Fergusson, Sir William	p. 117
Field Hospitals	p. 117
Fleming, Sir Alexander	p. 119
Forceps and Extractors	p. 120
Fort Detrick	p. 121
Fracastro, Girolamo	p. 122
Fractures	p. 122
Franco-Prussian War	p. 124
Galen of Pergamum	p. 129
Gas Gangrene	p. 130
Geneva Conventions	p. 132
Gersdorff, Hans von	p. 133
Glanders	p. 134
Gonorrhea	p. 134
Gorcke, Johann	p. 135
Gorgas, William Crawford	p. 136
Guillemeau, Jacques	p. 137
Gulf War	p. 138
Guthrie, George James	p. 139
Haitian Campaign	p. 141
Hammond, William	p. 142
Harvey, William	p. 143
Head Injury and Cranial Surgery	p. 144
Heister, Lorenz	p. 146
Hemostasis	p. 147
Hippocrates of Cos	p. 148
Holtzendorff, Ernst Conrad	p. 149
Hospital Ships	p. 150
Hospital Trains	p. 152
Human Experimentation	p. 155
Hunter, John	p. 157
Imhotep	p. 159
Indian Military Medicine	p. 159
Influenza	p. 162
Iraq and Afghan Wars	p. 164
Ireland, Major General Merritte Weber	p. 166
Ishii, Shiro	p. 167
Islamic Military Medicine	p. 167
Italian Campaign of 1859	p. 168
Jackson, Robert	p. 171
Japanese Military Medicine	p. 172
John of Arderne	p. 174
Jones, John	p. 174
Keen, William Williams	p. 177
Koch, Robert	p. 178
Korean Conflict	p. 179
Laennec, Rene-Theophile Hyacinthe	p. 185
Lanfranc of Milan	p. 186
Larrey, Baron Dominique-Jean	p. 186
Laveran, Charles Louis Alphonse	p. 188
Leishman, Sir William Boog	p. 189
Letterman, Jonathan	p. 190
Ligature	p. 191
Lind, James	p. 192
Lister, Lord Joseph	p. 193
Madagascar Campaign	p. 195
Magati, Cesare	p. 196
Malaria	p. 196
McGrigor, James	p. 198
Medieval Military Medicine	p. 199
Melioidosis (Whitmore's Disease)	p. 202
Mesopotamian Military Medicine	p. 202
Mexican-American War	p. 205
Military Sanitation	p. 206
Minoan and Ancient Greek Military Medicine	p. 207
Mitchell, Silas Weir	p. 209
Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals in the Korean Conflict	p. 210
Mondeville, Henri de	p. 212
Monro, Alexander primus	p. 213
Monro, Donald	p. 213
Moore, Samuel Preston	p. 214
Morgan, John	p. 215
Morphine	p. 216
Napoleonic Wars	p. 217
National Naval Medical Center	p. 221
Naval Medicine	p. 222
Nightingale, Florence	p. 224
Nuclear Warfare and Radiation Injury	p. 225
Nuremberg Code	p. 227
Nursing in the Military	p. 229
Omdurman Campaign	p. 235
Paracelsus (Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim)	p. 237
Pare, Ambroise	p. 238
Pasteur, Louis	p. 239
Paul of Aegina	p. 240
Penicillin	p. 241
Percy, Baron Pierre Francois	p. 243
Pfolspeundt, Heinrich von	p. 244
Phlebotomy and Venesection	p. 245
Pirogoff, Nikolai Ivanovich	p. 246
Plague (Bubonic Plague, Black Death)	p. 247
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)	p. 249
Pott, Percival	p. 250
Prehistoric Military Medicine	p. 251
Pringle, Sir John	p. 251
Prussian and German Military Medicine	p. 253
Purmann, Matthias	p. 255
Q Fever	p. 257
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service	p. 258
Quesnay, Francois	p. 259
Quinine	p. 260
Red Cross and Red Crescent	p. 263
Reed, Walter	p. 264
Rehabilitation and Reconstructive Surgery	p. 265
Reyher, Carl	p. 268
Rhazes (Abu Bakr Mohammed ben Zakariah)	p. 269
Roman Military Medicine	p. 270
Ross, Sir Ronald	p. 273
Royal Army Medical Corps	p. 274
Royal Victoria Hospital (Netley)	p. 278
Rush, Benjamin	p. 279
Russian Military Medicine	p. 280
Russo-Japanese War	p. 282
Salicetti, Guglielmo (William of Salicet)	p. 285
Saw	p. 285
Scabies	p. 286
Scalpel	p. 287
Scrub Typhus	p. 288
Scultetus, Johannes (also Johannes Schultes)	p. 288
Scurvy	p. 289
17th-Century Military Medicine	p. 291
Sharp, Samuel	p. 294
Shell Shock in World War I	p. 294
Shippen, William, Jr.	p. 296
Shock	p. 297
Sims, James Marion	p. 299
16th-Century Military Medicine	p. 300
Smallpox	p. 302
Smollet, Tobias	p. 304
Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta	p. 304
Spanish-American War	p. 305
Sternberg, George Miller	p. 308
Stretchers and Litters	p. 309
Sulfonamides	p. 311
Surgical Gloves	p. 312
Suture	p. 313
Sydenham, Thomas	p. 314
Syphilis	p. 315
Tagliacozzi, Gaspare	p. 317
Tetanus	p. 318
Theodoric, Bishop of Cervia (Teodorico Borgognoni)	p. 319
Tilton, James	p. 320
Torture	p. 321
Tourniquet	p. 322
Tracheotomy	p. 324
Transfusion	p. 325
Trench Fever (Volhynian Fever)	p. 326
Trench Foot	p. 327
Trephine, Trepan, and Trephining	p. 327
Triage	p. 329
Trotter, Thomas	p. 331
Tularemia	p. 331
Typhoid Fever	p. 332
Typhus	p. 334
Unit 731	p. 337
Vaccination and Variolation	p. 339
Vesalius, Andreas	p. 340
Viet Nam War	p. 341
Vozrozhdeniye Island	p. 343
Warren, John	p. 345
Warren, Joseph	p. 346
Wiseman, Richard	p. 346
World War I Medicine	p. 347
World War II Medicine	p. 351
Wright, Almroth	p. 355
Wurtz, Felix	p. 355
X-Ray	p. 357
Yellow Fever	p. 359
Annotated Bibliography	p. 361
Index	p. 369
About the Author	p. 385
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