Bullets and Bacilli

Bullets and Bacilli

Author: Vincent J. Cirillo

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780813533391

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This work focuses primarily on military medicine during this conflict. Historian Vincent J. Cirillo argues that there is a universal element of military culture that stifles medical progress. This war gave army medical officers an opportunity to introduce to the battlefield new medical technology, including the X-ray, aseptic surgery and sanitary systems derived from the germ theory. With few exceptions, however, their recommendations were ignored almost completely.