British Army Veterinary Services in the Far East

Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the British Army, 1660–1960

The Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine is shortly to publish in two volumes the first complete Roll of the Commissioned Medical Officers in the British Army. The first volume consists of a reprint of Johnston's Roll, which has entries for all the officers in the Army Medical Services from the accession of George II (1727) until the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 23 June 1...

Psychiatry in the British Army in the Second World War

The author can be criticised on several grounds. First, for what he has left out. Many people would have liked more on what they knew, as for instance (dare I say?) when the efforts of the psychiatrists in forward psychiatry in the Far East?which in some ways were unique?are dismissed in 5 pages. But this is perhaps unfair, when there is so much which has obviously to be omitted, and the author...

Chronic Strongyloides stercoralis infection in former British Far East prisoners of war.

BACKGROUND Chronic infections with the nematode worm Strongyloides stercoralis can occur in former WWII Far East prisoners of war (FEPOWs). The condition may be asymptomatic, but frequently causes a characteristic urticarial 'larva currens' rash. Under conditions of immunosuppression (particularly systemic corticosteroid treatment) potentially fatal dissemination of larvae ('hyperinfection') ma...

The British veterinary profession, 1791—1948

part of the treatise, which as a whole comprises nine parts devoted entirely to therapeutics. This is followed by a review of the historical sources and useful short biographical sections relating to Ibn Ezra and al-Haitham. The content of each part of the treatise, excluding the first which has already been dealt with, is described with reference to other medical writers. The psychological and...

Venereology in the British Army in Singapore in 1970.