Facets

1917

#2137.3

Effects of altitude on aviators.

The first discussion of decompression sickness in flying personnel.

1917

#6723

Roll of commissioned officers in the medical service of the British Army.

Covers the period from the accession of George II in 1727 to the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898. Reprinted 1968, together with the complementary List of commissioned medical officers of the Army, Char…

1917

#9210

Sanitation for medical officers. Medical War Manual No. 1. Authorized by the Secretary of War and under the Supervision of the Surgeon-General and the Council of National Defense.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1917 –1922

#10532

Science et dévouement: Le service de santé, la Croix-Rouge, les oeuvres de solidarité de guerre et d'après-guerre. Publie avec la colloboration de MM. J. Abadie, Jacques Bertillon, Georges Brouardel....Edited by François Albert.

A deluxe, large format, commemorative volume edited by journalist François Albert. It was published by subscription, limited to 5000 copies, and issued in fascicules from 1917-1922. Includes contributions by 50 eminen…

1917

#12500

Marching on Tanga (with General Smuts in East Africa).

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1917

#13069

Cruise of the U.S. brig Argus in 1813. Journal of surgeon James Inderwick, edited from the original manuscript in the New York Public Library with an introduction and notes by Victor Hugo Paltsits.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1918

#2184

Chirurgiens et blessés à travers l’histoire.

In this well-illustrated book Cabanès deals exhaustively with the transportation and surgical treatment of the wounded.

1918

#8107

Air service medical manual.

The first U. S. work dedicated to the medical aspects of military pilot selection. According to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, this manual was written by William Holland Wilmer, then director of the Medic…

1918

#8604

Medical diseases of the war. Second edition

Roughly the first half of this work is on "war neuroses." The second half is on "infective and other disorders," including gas poisoning. Hurst greatly expanded the first section after experience as a neurologist in E…

1918

#9597

Manual of medical research laboratory.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1918

#10998

The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt. An illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1918

#12076

War surgery of the face: A treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury. Prepared at the suggestion of the Subsection on Plastic and Oral Surgery connected with the Office of the Surgeon General.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1918

#13905

Die Stacheldraht-Krankheit: Beiträge zur Psychologie des Kriegsgefangenen. 2 vols.

Translated into English as Barbed wire disease: A psychological study of prisoners of war. Translated from the German, with additions. London: Bale & Danielson, 1919.

1919

#2137.4

Note préliminaire sur l’étude des effets de la force centrifuge sur l’organisme.

The first anti-blackout device. Proposed the use of the g belt to prevent the flow of blood to the abdomen.

1919

#2137.5

The medical and surgical aspects of aviation by H. Graeme Anderson. With chapters on applied physiology of aviation by Martin Flack, and the aero-neuroses of war pilots by Oliver H. Gotch.

The first textbook on aviation medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1919

#9436

The medical aspects of mustard gas poisoning.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1919

#11011

The story of U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 5

An account of the Base Hospital in which Cushing served in World War I, based upon his wartime diaries. Limited to 250 copies, some of which were issued in cloth-backed printed boards, and others in printed wrappers. …

1919

#11031

“Album de la guerre”: Five hundred photographs, seventy drawings and thirteen articles by members of Base Hospital no. 4, U.S.A. . . . and Mobile Hospital no. 5, U.S.A. . . . covering a period of twenty-three months from May 8th, 1917 to April 8th, 1919.

1919

#11983

With the American Ambulance in France.

Born in 1876 Honolulu, James Judd, the grandson of missionaries, was a private practice physician and graduate of Oahu College, Yale and Columbia Universities. He served in three wars: the Spanish-American and World W…

1920

#5758

Plastic surgery of the face.

Gillies introduced a tubed pedical flap in 1917.

1920

#7157

Women as army surgeons. Being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux & Endell Street, September 1914 - October 1919

Together with Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873-1943), to whom the book was dedicated, Murray co-founded the Women's Hospital for Children in 1912. The hospital provided health care for working-class children of the area,…

1920

#12067

The lethal war gases, physiology and experimental treatment. An Investigation by the section on intermediary metabolism of the Medical Division of the Chemical Warfare Service at Yale University under the direction of Frank P. Underhill. Published with the permission of the Chemical Warfare Service.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1920

#12162

Aviation medicine in the A. E. F.

"This publication contains an account written by Col.William H. Wilmer, Medical Corps, who was in charge of the Air Service Medical Research Laboratories in Issoudon, France, from September, 1918, until the armistice.…

1920

#12577

Goulstonian Lectures on the principles of science as applied to military aviation. Lecture I; Lecture II: War flying at high altitudes; Lecture III: War flying and high altitudes, cont.

"Fatigue was the most universal complaint of pilots. Major Birley attributed its occurrence to the bombardment of the senses by the constant stream of stimuli in the air, many of which were of a peculiar character.75 …

1920

#12592

The medical problems of flying. Including Reports Nos. I-VII of the Air Medical Investigation Committee. Privy Council Medical Research Council.

1921 –1929

#2178

History of the Great War Medical Services. Edited by William Grant MacPherson. 12 vols.

GREAT BRITAIN. War Office. Medical Services

1921 –1929

#2179

The medical department of the U.S. Army in the First World War. Prepared under the direction of Merritte W. Ireland. Editor-in-chief: Col. Charles Lynch. 15 vols. in 17.

UNITED STATES. War Dept. Surgeon General

pt. 1. Demobilization, 1919, by C.B. Davenport and A.G. Love. 1921. pt. 2. Medical and casualty statistics based on the medical records of the United States Army, April 1, 1917, to December 31, 1919, inclusive, by A.G…

1921

#9580

La radiologie et la guerre.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1922

#2185

Notes on the history of military medicine.

1923

#9077

American homeopathy in the world war. Edited by Frederick M. Dearborn.

Reflective of the extent to which homeopathy remained in mainstream American medicine in the period immediately after World War I. Reproduces at the front of the book a letter from President Warren G. Harding congratu…

1923

#11567

Traumatic shock.

"In the fall of 1916, before the United States entered World War I, the National Research Council named Cannon a member of a committee on traumatic shock. Later he joined the Harvard University Hospital Unit. On his w…

1925

#9445

The Medical Services: Official history of the Canadian forces in the Great War: 1914-1919.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1926

#2137.6

Aviation medicine.

Bauer established the first school for flight surgeons in the United States. His book discusses the question of oxygen supply and its essential partial pressure, and discusses the effect of hight degrees of accelerati…

1927

#10150

A history of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1796-1919.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1928

#12605

With a woman's unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol.

Hutton, a physician who specialized in mental and nervous disorders, began working with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, a voluntary organisation established by her older colleague Elsie Inglis, in 1915 first in France…

1929

#2186

A history of the Medical Department of the United States Army.

1929

#11004

Stretchers: The story of a hospital unit on the western front.

History of the U.S. Army American Expeditionary Forces Evacuation Hospital no. 8, World War 1, 1914-1918, in which Pottle served. Pottle was the greatest Boswell and Samuel Johnson scholar. Digital facsimile from the …

1930 –1933

#6588

Medicine in Virginia in the seventeenth (eighteenth, nineteenth) century. 3 vols.

1930 –1943

#9621

Official history of the Australian Army Medical Services in the war of 1914-1918

1930

#10847

Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges. 2 vols.

Sexuality in World War I. Abridged translation into English Sexual History of the World War (New York, Panurge Press, 1934). Only a small sampling of the plates from the German edition were issued as Illustrated Suppl…

1931

#2137.7

Muscular exercise at low barometric pressures.

With C.G. Douglas, L.P. Kendal, & R. Margaria. The first recorded attack of bends pain experienced at low barometric pressures. The authors atttempted to find the maximum altitude at which work could be done effective…

1931

#9213

Medical men in the American Revolution 1775-1783.

Digital edition from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1933 –1934

#2137.8

Der Einfluss von Beschleunigungen auf den Kreislaufapparat.

Determination of the effect of high acceleration on blood pressure, establishing that the systolic pressure in arteries going to the head falls progressively as acceleratory forces increase.

1937

#8594

Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.

Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.

1938

#2137.9

Oxygen in aviation. The necessity for the use of oxygen and a practical apparatus for its administration to both pilots and passengers.

First acute case of decompression sickness recognized.

1938

#1981

Oxygen for therapy and aviation: an apparatus for the administration of oxygen or oxygen and helium by inhalation.

1938

#1982

Design and construction of the masks for the oxygen inhalation apparatus.

The B. L. B. (Boothby-Lovelace-Bulbulian) mask. See also No. 1981.

1938

#4435.1

El tratamiento de la fractura de guerra.

During the Spanish Civil War (1935-38) Trueta adopted as standard treatment for gunshot wounds and compound fractures the closed plaster method originated by the American surgeon H. Winnett Orr. Trueta called this the…

1939

#2137.10

Principles and practice of aviation medicine.

Used by all American flight surgeons during World War II.

1939

#7174

Grundriss der Luftfahrtmedizin.

Compendium of aerospace medicine during the Nazi regime. Ruff was director of the Aviation Medicine Department at the German Experimental Institute for Aviation. Though he was later indicted for war crimes, Ruff was n…