The Story of Our Services under the Crown: A Historical Sketch of the Army Medical Staff

This book is a reprint of papers originally contributed to " Colburn's United Service Magazine." Its scope is ambitious. It aims to present a history of the aid which medical art and medical men have rendered in war from the earliest times,?among the Greeks and Romans, Crusaders and Normans, and in the English Army since their time. The history is brought down to the year 1860, when the first competitive examination for entrance into the Army Medical School took place, under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of 1858 There is an appendix giving a precis of the Report of the Committee on the Army Medical Service in 1878. The absence of the Inter history of the Department is to be regretted, but there are obvious difficulties in preparing: an impartial narrative of it by an officer still in the service. The book indicates