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436 entries match Military Medicine [G02.403.810.560]

1940

#13090

Field surgery in total war.

This book " became required reading in the US Army Medical Service during the Second World War. According to one US authority, C.E. Welch, Jolly’s methods ‘undoubtedly contributed more to the saving of lives of patien…

1941

#2187

A short history of nautical medicine.

1941

#1684

War and disease.

1942

#2137.30

A bibliography of aviation medicine.

1942

#9217

Ornithologists of the United States Army Medical Corps, thirty-six biographies.

1942 –1943

#12088

A doctor comes to California: The diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-1847. Edited by George Walcott Ames, Jr.

"In 1840, Griffin was appointed assistant surgeon in the Army and served under General William J. Worth in Florida and, with the rank of captain, on the Southwest frontier at Fort Gibson, Griffin came to California fo…

1943

#9216

Victories of army medicine: Scientific accomplishments of the Medical Department of the United States Army.

1943

#9379

Shipwreck-survivors: A medical study.

Probably one of the first books on the medical aspects of this particular subject. "In this lecture it will be our purpose, first to describe the various ordeals which befall men after their ship has been lost, the cl…

1943

#11669

Aviation medicine.

1944

#9032

Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service.

1947

#13113

The effects of atomic bombs on health and medical services in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Medical Division.

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

1948

#2138

Aviation medicine in its preventive aspects: an historical survey.

1949

#6596

Aesculapius comes to the Colonies. The story of the early days of medicine in the thirteen original colonies.

1949

#12019

Medicine under canvas: A war journal of the 77th Evacuation Hospital. Edited by Max Scott Allen. [Copyright by the University of Kansas School of Medicine.]

"Organized in Kansas with a capacity of 750 beds, this unit was made up of 47 doctors, 52 nurses, a hospital dietitian, and 318 enlisted men. The unit shipped out to England in May, 1942 on the H.M.T. Orcades. They be…

1950

#7173

German aviation medicine in World War II. Prepared under the auspices of The Surgeon General, U. S. Air Force. 2 vols.

Comprehensive analysis of German accomplishments in aviation and aerospace medicine during World War II, written by 56 mostly specialist German physicians and scientists from the Nazi regime who were brought to the Un…

1951

#13558

Space medicine: The human factor in flights beyond the earth. Edited by John P. Marbarger.

Includes chapters by Maj. Gen. Harry G. Armstrong, Wernher von Braun, Hubertus Strughold, Heinz Haber and others.

1952 –1962

#2180

History of the Second World War. Medical series. 13 vols.

GREAT BRITAIN

1952 –1968

#2180.1

The Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. 30 vols. in 33.

UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE

Since 1968 this series of unnumbered volumes or multi-volume sets devoted to particular subjects has continued under the name of U.S. Army Medical Department

1952

#2187.1

Doctors in blue. The medical history of the Union Army in the [United States] civil war.

1952

#7175

Physics and medicine of the upper atmosphere. A study of the aeropause, edited by Clayton S. White and Otis O. Benson, Jr. Foreward by Harry G. Armstrong.

Proceedings of the first symposium on high altitude physics and medicine sponsored in the U.S. after World War II, summarizing research done in the nascent U.S. space program based on the V2 rocket, the WAC Corporal r…

1953 –1956

#9446

Official history of the Canadian Medical Services: 1939-1945. Vol. 1: Organization and campaigns. Vol. 2: Clinical subjects. Edited by W. R. Feasby. 2 vols.

Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.

1954 –1956

#9199

The Royal Naval Medical Service. Vol. 1. Administration. Vol. 2. Operations. History of the Second World War. United Kingdom medical series.

1954

#9228

Medical considerations in helicopter evacuation.

"The introduction of the helicopter to the Army Medical Department's traditional battlefield mission of medical evacuation of sick, injured, and wounded soldiers from frontline units to hospitals in the rear had its r…

1955 –1969

#9221

Medical Department, United States Army. Preventive medicine in World War II. Editor in chief John Boyd Coates, Jr. Editor for Preventive medicine Ebbe Curtis Hoff. 9 vols.

Digital facsimile of vols. 2-9 from the Hathi Trust at this link. (When I created this entry in March 2017 it was unclear whether vol. 1 was ever published.)

1955

#9222

Medical Department, United States Army. United States Army Dental Service in World War II.

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

1955

#10249

Medical support of the Army Air Forces in World War II.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1956

#7418

Lincoln's fifth wheel: the political history of the U. S. Sanitary Commission.

1956

#8020

The Medical Department: Hospitalization and evacuation, zone of interior. The U. S. Army in World War II: The technical services.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1957 –1963

#2188

Medicine and the navy, 1200-1900. 4 vols.

Vols. 3-4 by C. Lloyd and J. L. S. Coulter.

1957

#10993

A navy surgeon in California 1846-1847. The journal of Marius Duvall. Edited by Fred Blackburn Rogers.

1958

#2188.1

Doctors in gray: the Confederate Medical Service.

1958

#12561

Cold injury, ground type.

Summary of what was learned about frostbite and trenchfoot encountered by military personel in World War II. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1960

#11767

The first Internation Symposium on Cardiology in Aviation. Conducted at the School of Aviation Medicine 12-13 November 1959. USAF Aerospace Medical Center (ATC). Edited by Lawrence E. Lamb.

1961

#9223

Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. United States Army Veterinary Service in World War II.

"The Army Veterinary Service has three major missions: (1) Inspection of food used by the military including its processing and the sanitary inspections of the establishments producing it; (2) provision of a comprehen…

1961

#13083

Proceedings of a conference on results of the first U.S. manned suborbital space flight. June 6, 1961.

Ch. 4: "Review of biomedical systems for MR-3 flight." Ch. 5: "Results of preflight and postflight medical examinations" Ch. 6: "Bioinstrumentation in MR-3 flight." Ch.7: "Physiological responses of the astronatu in t…

1961

#13084

Results of the second U.S. manned suborbital space flight July 21, 1961.

Ch. 3: "Results of the MR-4 preflight and postflight medical examination conducted on astronaut Virgil I. Grissom." Ch. 4: "Physiological responses of the astronaut in the MR-4 space flight." Ch. 5: "Flight surgeon's …

1962

#7417

Medicines for the Union Army: the United States Army Laboratories during the Civil War.

1962

#13082

Results of the first United States Manned Orbital Space Flight February 20, 1962.

Ch. 3: "Life support systems and biomedical instrumentation." Ch. 8: "Aeromedical preparation and results of postflight medical examinations." Ch. 9: "Physiological responses of the astronaut." Ch. 10: "Astronaut prep…

1963

#8161

Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima.

English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: From Solferino to Tsushima. (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1985).

1964

#10453

The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Its first century.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1965

#2138.1

Essays on the history of aviation medicine.

"Translation of Ocherki po istorii aviatsionnoy meditsiny," Moscow: U. S. S. R. Academy of Sciences Publishing House, 1962. Primarily useful for the history of aviation medicine in Russia, with a very extensive biblio…

1965

#10251

Space medicine in Project Mercury.

"Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, id…

1967

#12845

Diaria de bello Carolino (Diary of the Caroline war). Edited and translated by Dorothy M. Schullian.

Latin text with parallel English translation.

1968

#7884

The evolution of preventive medicine in the United States Army, 1607–1939.

Available from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History, at this link.

1968

#10802

Disease in the Civil War: Natural biological warfare in 1861-1865.

1968

#10804

Medical-military portraits of Union and Confederate generals.

1972

#12055

Index alphabétique et biographique du personnel médical pendant l’expédition d’Orient (Égypte-Syrie 1798-1801). Thèse de médecine.

Only a very small number of copies of this thesis appear to have been issued.

1973

#2138.2

The dangerous sky. A history of aviation medicine.

1973

#8621

Medical men at the siege of Boston, April, 1775- April, 1776.

1974

#8819

A history of the Army Medical Department. 2 vols.