Military Medicine: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century
, by McCallum, Jack E.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781851096930 | 1851096930
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/1/2008
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.
Jack McCallum, M.D., Ph.D., is a visiting scholar at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
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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