1 Preclinical Experiment Center, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China 2 Department of Physiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China 3 Center of clinical aviation medicine, General Hospital of Air Force, Beijing, China 4 Department of Pharmacology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China 5 Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fo...

The military has a rich tradition in relation to physical medicine and rehabilitation. The development of physical medicine and rehabilitation, to a large extent, can be traced to the wars of the 20th century. Military physiatrists were visionary leaders of our field, who responded to the overwhelming needs of war casualties, and with their insight, propelled psychiatry physical medicine and re...

however, necessary to point out that Guillermand's discussion of eighteenth-century military medicine is largely confined to bureaucratic developments within France, and that even here his description of the shortcomings in the care of the sick and wounded in the Seven Years War (p. 422) glosses over the abominable mismanagement that killed off forty out of every hundred soldiers admitted to ho...

Croatian military medicine developed with the Croatian State and Army. Severe war conditions called for a military medicine that would integrate civil and military components: General Hospital Karlovac, medical corps of the Croatian Army, and emergency, preventive, and general medicine care. The wounded from the entire battlefield of the Karlovac area were admitted to and treated at the General...

1 Ophthalmology Department, Hakkari Military Hospital, Hakkari, Turkey. 2 Emergency Department Medicine, Hakkari Military Hospital, Hakkari, Turkey. 3 Ophthalmology Department, Kasımpasa Military Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. 4 Neurosurgery Department, GATA Haydarpasa Education Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. 5 Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey. Fundi...

A Giant Foreign Body due to Rocket Explosion Roket Patlamasına Bağlı Büyük Bir Yabancı Cisim Fatih Hikmet Candas1, Bulent Karslioglu2, Yusuf Emrah Eyi3, Onur Sildiroglu4 1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hakkari Military Hospital, Hakkari, Turkey 2Department of Orthopeadic Surgery, Hakkari Military Hospital, Hakkari, Turkey 3Department of Emergency Medicine, Hakkari Military Hospital, Hakkari, T...

Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Defense Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia General Hospital Medigroup, Belgrade, Serbia Department of Pharmacokinetics and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia ENT Hospital, Dr. Zutic, Belgrade, Serbia Institute for Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Defense Milita...

This article examines 18th-century European warfare, tracing the first formal codifications of conventions of war, frequently introduced by military physicians and initially regarding the treatment of the sick and wounded. It outlines to what extent these conventions were followed in practice, particularly in the challenging environment of American irregular warfare, with a focus on the most we...

The Royal Army Medical College was founded in 1860. The staff included a Professor of Military Medicine, a Professor of Military Surgery, a Professor of Military Hygiene and a Professor of Pathology. The main role of the Professor of Surgery is to participate in the teaching of young medical officers in those aspects of surgery particularly relevant to the military community and also to partici...

ALTHOUGH Dr. Henry Marshall wrote extensively in the post-Waterloo era about the health of soldiers, relatively little has been written about his influence on military medicine." Marshall was a respected naturalist, a gifted historian, the first medical officer in the British army to compile vital statistics of troops garrisoned throughout the Empire,' and he was the foremost early Victorian ad...