The Medical Annual, 1914

The evolution of military medical services 1854 to 1914.

A contemporary examination of the response of British and United States military organizations to the increased manpower wastage occasioned by the diseases and weaponry of war during the period 1854 to 1914 and the resulting changes in how these respective medical services were organized and employed.

Heritage of excellence. The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 1914–1947

Margaret Ridley Charlton, medical librarian and historian: on evaluation of her career.

Margaret Charlton, Assistant Librarian of the McGill Medical Library from 1895 to 1914, played a leading role in the formation of the Medical Library Association, of which she became the first Secretary. Her career at McGill's Medical Library appears to have been a colourful one and brought her into contact with many of the faculty. After leaving McGill in 1914, she was appointed as Librarian a...

Robert Arthur Askins

Dr. Askins was born in Clonmore, County Carlcw, Ireland, in 1880. He received his medical education at Trinity College, Dublin, and graduated M.B., Ch.B., B.A.O., at Dublin University in 1907 (First Class Honourman and First Place Final Medical Examination). Later he gained the Cambridge Diploma in Public Health and the degrees of M.A. and M.D. at Dublin University. He was also a barrister-at-l...

Medical women at war, 1914-1918.

Women had a long and difficult struggle before they were allowed to obtain a medical education.' Even in 1914 the Royal Free was the only London teaching hospital to admit them and some universities (including Oxford and Cambridge) still held out against them. The cost of a medical education continued to be a major obstacle, but at least there were enough schools by then to ensure that British ...