A civil war doctor by Uschan 1948-

Combat surgeons by Laffin, John

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…”