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- Diabetes in the pre-insulin era,
- Influenza,
- Lice,
- Military Surgery,
- Malaria
- Trench Fever,
- Trench Foot
- Sanitation and Hygiene,
- Psychiatry.
- Venereology
Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 The pathology of influenza in
France, by Dr. S. W. Patterson, published in the Medical Journal of Australia on March 6th. 1920
Blood Transfusion in the early years of the 20th
Century - Extracts from the book "Blood Transfusion" by Dr Geoffrey Keynes, 1922.
- Acronyms A list of commonly used WW1 British Medical abbreviations
reproduced by courtesy of Nancy Nygaard Gaynor.
- Ambulance Services Letters from ambulance drivers and
stretcher bearers and photographs of WW1 Ambulances.
- The Red Cross Organisation in WW1
- The Accomplishments of the American Red Cross Organisation.
- The German Red Cross Organisation.
- Bibliography of Great War Medicine prepared by Dr. Andrew
Bamji, Gillies Archives, Frognal Centre for Medical Studies, Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent, UK. This was
last updated in March 2008.
- Death of Manfred von Richthofen A critical
analysis of the postmortem examination and a reconstruction of the probable events of Manfred von Richthofen's
last flight.
- Dental Dental services in the Australian Army at the outbreak
of World War I were non-existent and this article describes how attempts were made to remedy this situation.
- Diaries and Biographies includes accounts of Flanders,
the Battles of the Somme and Passchendaele, German South West Africa, the American Red Cross in Siberia, the Imperial
Russian Army Medical Corps and on board the HMS Carnarvon, during WW1.
- Evacuation of the wounded from the battlefield.
from articles in the British Medical Journal of April-October 1917. These include evacuation from the trenches
to the Advanced Dressing Station, descriptions of the role of the battalion medical officers, Field Ambulances,
Casualty Clearing Stations, Stationary Hospitals, Ambulance Trains and Barges and Hospital Ships.
- Evacuation of the Sick and Wounded, taken from a Manual
entitled 'Military Organization and Administration' by Major G R N Collins, Instructor Canadian Military School,
Hugh Rees Ltd, London 1918.
- Gas warfare in the Great War This includes the
complete Manual of Gas Warfare published by HMSO, 1941, based on data from 1918 with the 3rd Edition of the Atlas
of Gas Poisoning, published in 1938. There are also a series of photographs illustrating how horses, mules, dogs
and pigeons were protected from gas poisoning.
- Geneva Convention relating to the Treatment of Wounded
and Sick, July 6th 1906
- German Treatment of Injured Prisoners of War. Extracts
from an Australian Official Publication, "How the Germans Treated Australian Prisoners of War", taken
from the statements of repatriated Australian WW1 servicemen. Issued by the Defence Department, 1919, Melbourne,
Australia.
- Hospitals and Casualty Clearing Stations Including an
index of Hospitals and Casualty Clearing Stations on the Western Front classified according to location and date.
- Hospital Ships destroyed by submarines or mines during
the Great War
- Landry Papers Selection: Dr. Landry served as a
medical officer at Camp Beauregard, Lousiana, during WW1 and was Chief of the Medical Service in 1918. His papers
have been preserved by his family and articles on the cardiac requirements of recruits, papers on epidemic cerebro-spinal
meningitis and the history of the medical service at Camp Beauregard, including the influenza epidemic of 1918,
are reproduced.
- Medical Statistics Records of the American Forces
in the World War
- Medical Service of the 14th Imperial Regiment, a unit of
the Austro-Hungarian Army written by Dr Strauss, its last medical officer
- Mission to Serbia in 1914-191 An extract from the book
"Surgeon's Journey" by James Johnston Abraham, CBE., DSO, FRCS, Published by Heinemann, London. This
describes his service in charge of a Serbian under-equipped, overworked hospital that was exposed to the great
Typhus Epidemic of 1915 where a million people were affected and tens of thousands died.
- Nursing Nursing Documents Including Letters from France,
Published in Book Form During The Great War
- Pharmacological
Pharmacy During The First World War
- Photographs and pictures These include a series of sketches
by Britain's first official War Artist, Muirhead Bone, illustrating the transport of the wounded from the battle
of the Somme.
- Radiology Radiology Unit Of The Harvard University Surgical
Unit, Serving With The British Red Cross During WWI
- Recruitment for the armed forces Classification of
British Recruits and Hints for examination for recruitment for the US Navy and Marine Corps, 1916, before America
joined the war in 1917.
- Report of the Surgeon of HMAS Sydney, Dr Leonard Darby,
to his commanding officer following the engagement between HMAS Sydney and SMS Emden off the Cocos Islands
on November 9th 1914.
- Surgical Experiences in the Battle of Jutland
An article published in the Medical Journal of Australia, January 6th., 1917, pages 18-20.
- Veterinary Services US Army Veterinary Corps and British
Imperial Armies Veterinary Service in the field.
- LINKS to other sites with World War One
medical historical content
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