Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Armed Forces Medical Library).
Author: Armed Forces Medical Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1608
Book Description
"Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1608
Book Description
"Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Army Medical Library). Authors and Subjects
Author: Army Medical Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1602
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2556
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2556
Book Description
The Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II.
Author: United States. Army Medical Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Military Medicine
Author: Armed Forces Medical Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1552
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
Book Description
Fever of War
Author: Carol R Byerly
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814789633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced. Through medical officers' memoirs and diaries, official reports, scientific articles, and other original sources, Byerly tells a grave tale about the limits of modern medicine and warfare. The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers who, armed with new knowledge and technologies of modern medicine, had an inflated sense of their ability to control disease. The conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front soon outflanked medical knowledge by creating an environment where the influenza virus could mutate to a lethal strain. This new flu virus soon left medical officers’ confidence in tatters as thousands of soldiers and trainees died under their care. They also were unable to convince the War Department to reduce the crowding of troops aboard ships and in barracks which were providing ideal environments for the epidemic to thrive. After the war, and given their helplessness to control influenza, many medical officers and military leaders began to downplay the epidemic as a significant event for the U. S. army, in effect erasing this dramatic story from the American historical memory.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814789633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced. Through medical officers' memoirs and diaries, official reports, scientific articles, and other original sources, Byerly tells a grave tale about the limits of modern medicine and warfare. The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers who, armed with new knowledge and technologies of modern medicine, had an inflated sense of their ability to control disease. The conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front soon outflanked medical knowledge by creating an environment where the influenza virus could mutate to a lethal strain. This new flu virus soon left medical officers’ confidence in tatters as thousands of soldiers and trainees died under their care. They also were unable to convince the War Department to reduce the crowding of troops aboard ships and in barracks which were providing ideal environments for the epidemic to thrive. After the war, and given their helplessness to control influenza, many medical officers and military leaders began to downplay the epidemic as a significant event for the U. S. army, in effect erasing this dramatic story from the American historical memory.