Author: John M. Hyson

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 900

ISBN-13: 9780160821592

A detailed history of the development of military dentistry in the United States, from beginnings in the early 17th century, through the professionalization of dentistry in the 19th century, dental care on both sides of the Civil War, the establishment of the US Army Dental Corps in 1909, and the expansion of the Corps through World War I and afterward, to the verge of the Second World War.