The Army Medical Department
The Army Medical Department

Author: Mary C. Gillett

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-08-17

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9781516931231

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This is the first volume of a history of the U.S. Army Medical Department from the start of the American Revolution to World War I. This book deals with the period when the Medical Department existed only as a wartime expedient and concludes with the passage in April 18 18 of the law that fin ally established the department on a permanent basis. Future volumes will describe all aspects of the medical care of soldiers scattered in small units over the rapidly growing nation and the challenges posed by war in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The discipline that governed Army surgeons and their patients enabled them to control treatment and record its results with a precision and regularity impossible in civilian medicine. Thus Army surgeons and the Medical Department played a large role in the progress of medical science, a role not always recognized by the profession, by the scholarly community, or by the public at large. This new history of the Army Medical Department tells the beginning of that story. It is a significant and long needed contribution to the study of military medicine.

The Army Medical Department, 1775-1818
The Army Medical Department, 1775-1818

Author: Mary C. Gillet

Publisher: Military Bookshop

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9781782660941

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A history of U.S. Army medical activities from the Revolutionary War to 1818, the year in which congressional legislation instituted the modern Medical Department.

The Army Medical Department 1775 - 1818
The Army Medical Department 1775 - 1818

Author: Michael Lee

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-06-07

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781548240028

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This history of the U. S. Army Medical Department deals with the period when the Medical Department existed only as a wartime expedient and concludes with the passage in April 1818 of the law that finally established the department on a permanent basis. The discipline that government Army surgeons and their patients enabled them to control treatment and record its results with a precision and regularity impossible in civilian medicine. Thus Army surgeons and the Medical Department played a large role in the progress of medical science, a role not always recognized by the profession, by the scholarly community, or by the public at large.

The Army Medical Department, 1775-1818
The Army Medical Department, 1775-1818

Author: Center of Military History United States

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-12-13

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9781505515374

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A history of U.S. Army medical activities from the Revolutionary War to 1818, the year in which congressional legislation instituted the modern Medical Department.

The Army Medical Department
The Army Medical Department

Author: Mary C. Gillett

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-08-17

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9781516931408

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The second in a projected four-volume series that will cover the history of the Army Medical Department from 1775 to 194 1, this volume traces the development of the department from its establishment on a permanent basis in 1818 through the final days of the Civil War in 1865. The uninterrupted existence of the Medical Department after 1818 made possible the gradual transformation of its staff from a collection of physicians of varying skills and attitudes into a group of highly trained and disciplined medical officers, proud of their organization and of their roles in it. Although the state of the art of medicine before 1865 gave the military surgeon few effective weapons again stillness and infection, after 1818, as this most recent volume in the series demonstrates, the length of the military career of the average medical officer and his professional attitude toward the challenges he met led him to concentrate his efforts on the Army's health problems and to work persistently to improvise ways in which to meet them. The Army Medical Department, 1818-1865 is, like its predecessor, a significant and long-needed contribution to the history of military medicine.