Combat surgeons
To the press, the politicians and the generals, the tens of thousands of wounded that result from a modern large-scale battle are thought of as "casulaties". To the dedicated surgeons, doctors and their staff they are individuals in need of expert help. Throughout history, Armed Services d...
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Stroud, UK
Sutton
1999
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Table of Contents:
- 'Glorious dead' and 'gallant wounded'
- Early military doctors
- Weapons and diseases
- Ambroise pare - new principles and pity
- Leeches, blisters, bleedings
- Hunter and the Portuguese campaign
- Broken bodies, broken hearts
- Guthrie, McGrigor and Peninsular War
- Larrey, Percy and French humanity
- Illness at sea
- Wounds at sea
- The surgeon and service punishment
- Crimea - administrative chaos
- Crimea - regimental chaos
- Solferino and Henry Dunant
- American Civil War, Franco-Prussian War - and massive casualties
- The limits of a surgeon's endurance: a navy/army contrast
- Development of the British Army Medical Services
- The Boer War and a harsh lesson
- First World War and the challenge to medicine
- Surgeons in the field
- What the sisters saw
- Second World War and doctors in the desert
- Sicily, Italy, North-West Europe: jungles and guerrillas
- Psychiatrists join the team
- The agony of Vietnam
- War in a cold climate
- Combate medicine in the gulf
- The lingering Gulf War