Official History of the Great War. Medical Services. Pathology

The Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services in the War 1914-18. Volume III. Special Problems and Services

Fighting flu: military pathology, vaccines, and the conflicted identity of the 1918-19 pandemic in Britain.

This article explores the decisive role of British military medicine in shaping official approaches to the 1918 influenza pandemic. It contends that British approaches were defined through a system of military pathology, which had been established by the War Office as part of the mobilization of medicine for the First World War. Relying on the bacteriological laboratory for the identification a...

Satisfaction of Supplementary Insurance and Medical Services during Trips in War Survivors and their Families

Introduction: During trips the imposed costs are aggravated due to time and financial limits, not being familiar with treatment centers that are covered by the insurances and charges for accommodation. Insurance, especially supplementary treatment services insurance can be an appropriate solution to decrease these costs. These kinds of insurances cover a range of services inclu...

Long night's journey into day: prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941–1945

Thomson and George Ballingall. He has very little to say, however, about the shortlived chair at Dublin, but the final chapter provides a sketch of medical education in the wake of the Crimean war, and the establishment of the Army Medical School at Fort Pitt, Chatham, in 1860 and its relocation to Netley three years later. Overall, the book provides a good deal of useful information about Brit...

A History of Medicine in South Carolina, 1825–1900

A History ofMedicine in South Carolina, 1825-1900, by JOSEPH I. WARING, Charleston, South Carolina Medical Association, 1967, pp. xv, 366, illus., $7.70. In this second volume Waring has continued the history of South Carolina from the graduation in 1825 of the first class at the Medical College. He deals separately with plantation medicine, the growth of hospitals, medical education, professio...